Had an off:(

[Brettholmes89]

Thursday evening, jumped on bike and left work, went he same way home I always do, pulling up to a slight hill and let a car out of a petrol station on the right, went to set off and the back when span up, grabbed and chucked me off, threw me up and I landed on my shoulder breaking my collar bone! Further inspection afterwards proved to be diesel on the road

[Brettholmes89]

[Fazerider]

Sorry to hear that, hope you mend quickly and the repairs aren't too costly.
I hate diesel, it kills thousands with the filthy soot it produces and should be phased out. And while I'm in dictator mode, anyone slopping the stuff on the road from an unsecured filler cap gets their vehicle crushed.
In the meantime, you just have to remember that roundabouts, corners and the road outside filling stations are potential skating-rinks.

[unfazed]

Sorry to hear that, hope you mend quickly and the repairs aren't too costly.
I hate diesel, it kills thousands with the filthy soot it produces and should be phased out. And while I'm in dictator mode, anyone slopping the stuff on the road from an unsecured filler cap gets their vehicle crushed.
In the meantime, you just have to remember that roundabouts, corners and the road outside filling stations are potential skating-rinks.

 

[Ckennedy]

Never good to have an off. I had one last year. Before I had my fazer. Speedy recovery

[fazersharp]

Take some pictures of the spill, perhaps take it further ? 

[Brettholmes89]

That's what I can see on the bike.

I was going to but I was in too much pain that first night.
Apparently a woman came a off her bike later evening too.
I'm feeling better now, just very sore. Fracture clinic today at 1:40 so hopefully I'll get to know how long it'll take to heal. My guess is 6 weeks minimum.
 Thanks for all the concern

[kebab19]

Just saw this, sorry to hear diesel spillage has claimed another victim.  GWS.
Bike looks repairable at least.
Could manufacturers not put dye in diesel to make it bright yellow or something...

[Fazerider]

Were the police called? If you needed an ambulance then one should have attended automatically so far as I'm aware.
I wonder if there mightn't be a case to sue the filling station?
After all, pubs can lose their licence if they let get their customers so inebriated that they cause a public nuisance. If a filling station's customers spill diesel on the road as they're leaving, doesn't that come under duty of care or something? Particularly if they don't do anything about it and some other unfortunate comes along and crashes on the same patch.

[darrsi]

Were the police called? If you needed an ambulance then one should have attended automatically so far as I'm aware.
I wonder if there mightn't be a case to sue the filling station?
After all, pubs can lose their licence if they let get their customers so inebriated that they cause a public nuisance. If a filling station's customers spill diesel on the road as they're leaving, doesn't that come under duty of care or something? Particularly if they don't do anything about it and some other unfortunate comes along and crashes on the same patch.

It's not their problem though is it, you can't expect a garage to take the blame for someone's leaking fuel system.
Selling booze to someone who's pissed out of their mind is a different story though. But even then, what's to stop them getting in a car parked up the road and causing carnage?