Rear-ended gently at a roundabout

[wickedmonkey]

Back in the day when London weekend television were going , I picked up a job about 2.30 in the afternoon went down lower ground indicated to turn left to go up to Waterloo bridge always on the mirrors nothing behind slowed down to about 10 mph checked the mirrors again a black motor  appeared in the  mirrors at speed bang . I think they must of hit me at about 40 mph rammed me up onto the pavement that's when things get abit hazey . The bike hit a tree that's where my CX 500 stopped . I must have gone up into the branches because the tree snapped at about head height , this must of slowed me down but I still travelled another 40yards where I slid into a bollard in the middle of the road. The woman who had been driving the car was standing apologising and saying sorry I didn't see you . Then people turned up standing over me asking if I was alright then asking who was driving the car that hit me. Still laying in the road I said there she goes , she had taken off in her BMW estate. The police caught her in Chelsea where she had hit another vehicle . I couldn't get any details about her for 3 months until she was prosecuted by Chelsea . All she got was a fine and two and a half year ban for drink driving. It took me over a year to get any insurance money . The damage was abit more extreme the fairing was one of those big fibreglass one piece jobs it must of exploded when it hit the tree . I did get it back on the road again when I got paid out . Nowadays that would be a right off

Ow. That sounds painful. I consider myself incredibly lucky.