[1320ride]

so i was out just for a little while on the bike last night and was on my way home on kinns rd in clifton park. im doing about 45-50 mph and i see a car come to a "T" intersection at bernini drive. i slow down as usual just as a precaution, see the car inch forward a little more just over the white line , so i start using my rear brake... the bike starts to fishtail a little bit, so i let off the brake, and the bike straightened back out... at this point in time the car continues to pull out into the lane and is nearly at the yellow lines. theres a car comming the other direction so i cant swerve... i hit the rear brake and grab the front brake and the bike proceeds to flip, ejecting me off the front. i landed helmet first and the bike lands on top of me sliding to a stop just before the car. i jump up knowing im in the road trying to make sure i still have all my parts, then try and drag the smashed up bike out of the road. at this point in time a pickup truck (ford ranger or something like it) is comming down the road and im waving trying to tell him to stop... he doesnt see me and i drop the bike and jump out of the way onto the lawn next to the road just in time to see him hit the bike at about 50 mph and knock it 300 feet further down the road. passers by and such stop and called 911... 6 county sherriffs show up and an ambulance in record time. im checked out in the ambulance and my right wrist is VERY tender and i have 5 small patches of road rash on my lower body and ass. the old lady driving the car tells me that she thought i was a street lamp and thats why she pulled out. she is cited for failure to yield the right of way, pulling into an occupied roadway. i come home and check out my gear and the helmet is scrathed heavily down the left side and cracked there with rubber marks from where the bike went across my head on the right side of it, the carbon fiber on the knuckles of the gloves is severely scratched and dented in on both , and there are tears by the neck on the back of the jacket, and on both sleves near the wrist. my ex gf and mother take me to the ER to get my wrist checked out and it turns out ive snapped the scaphoid bone in my right wrist clean through with over a mm of separation. this is going to require surgery to insert a couple screws and maybe a pin or 2 to pull the bone back together. after surgery im being told ill be in a cast for approx 4-5 weeks followed by intense physical therapy to regain use of my thumb and wrist. my gear saved my life guys so if u ever consider not wearing it think twice. ride safe.