GOOD NEWS!!! HE'S HOME!! (Shoe48 (Dave) hit by a car!!!) UPDATE 6-16-08

Beatpoet wrote:

Share your accident stories, every one of them reminds me of how to treat cars: "They Dont See You."

Well put, well put indeed.

Every car, every street, every hidden hole contains some average human prone to err.

Yesterday I went through a gauntlet on the free-way. I tend to look at drivers to try to be more aware.

Imagine four cars, two on each side of an open lane on a five lane section of I-5.

Guy on the right, on the phone! Pass cautiously and check left, on the phone!.....

You guessed it, at one point I was surrounded on all four corners by vehicle operators engaged in phone conversations....

Lets be constantly vigilant, and not let ourselves move towards complacency. The driver who almost killed Dave has a lot of compatriots.

Speedy recovery Dave, I hope that this too can pass as comfortably as it should.

I just checked in and read about Dave's collision. Dave, my best thoughts and wishes for your recovery. When you get a little better let us know what we can do to help you out.
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Wow, this sucks. Good luck to the Shoe household. Thanks to you as well Rage or the updates. On a side note, it is sad to here about Ken Glidewell. I listened to him alot.

I went through a tib/fib fracture a few years ago. It was just awful.
I can't even imagine what Shoe will have to go through on the recovery road.
Good luck dude, your in my prayers.

You got to be careful and fully aleart at all times you on your bike , riding, sitting whatever ,... "Ride like you are invisible" is what i was told when I first threw a leg over my friends knuckhead , I lived and rode with that to this day!

Bad news indeed. Get well soon...

I haven't been online as much as I have in the past, so I'm just hearing of this.

Bad news indeed.

Rose and I send our prayers and best wishes for a full recover for you Dave, and for all that your wife and family is/will be going through during your healing process.



I consider myself a fairly safe and aware rider, and have been very fortunate considering that I avoid at least one potential accident every day due to inattentive cage drivers.
There's no real trick to it at all, I simply view every vehicle that I share the roads with as being out there to get me.
It's in constanly anticipating every sceanario, and it only takes a quick glance away from the road for things to become completely out of control.


Please be safe out there folks, and don't enjoy the ride so much that you neglect the basics of staying safe and alive.

Todays update:

This is the latest from Shoe's wife, it's looking better every day:

Hi everyone,
Good news is that Dave should be out of ICU today and moving to the step-down ICU area for a few days. If everything remains good there after a few days he'll move to a regular room hopefully next week. From there they are talking about the rehab program, currently talking about intensive inpatient therapy for 2-weeks then hopefully home. Again thank you for all of your thoughts and prayers, we have been passing those along. He is still not up to visitors, talking tires him out quickly and best to have him focus on rest and recovery. He is anxious to be home and I know we'll need your support and understanding to help him all the way back. Love, Sheryl

:woohoo: :woohoo: Great News!

Get well soon Dave

Speedy recovery to you Shoe! And wish a safe ride to everyone else.

Thanks for the update,Rage,and Sheryl.
That IS great news!:woohoo:

Hang in there,Shoe,and when you start feeling better,you can start your "Bike-Therapy" by using a wheelchair in the hospital!:laugh:
Keep it legal though,and install a horn eh.
HEY...how bout a wheelchair-cam!!:woohoo: