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I was riding my 1100 Katana to work two days before christmas in 1985 when this dumb ethnic fisherman runs across the road. I blew my horn, braked and tried to avoid him but he just kept coming. His head hit my right forearm which caused a compound fracture of the radius. Naturally my left hand pulled the bike over to the kerb which I hit and sent me into a traffic sign and street light. I dislocated my right knee and severed the nerve and everthing else in side my knee. I suffer from foot drop and have had many surgeries to try and rectify to no avail. The thing that annoys me most is that there was a set off traffic lights 50m away where he could have crossed. We went to court and he no speaka the english and through an interpreter conveyed he did not remember the moring in question. He gets off and I lose the case because I should have kept a better look out, and I thought roads were made for vehicles and crossings for pedestrians. Oh and someone stole my Shoei helmet while I was writhing in pain waiting for the ambo!
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