[the_lone_wolf]

Copied from another forum, sounds like an extremely bad day...

well I had a great day yesterday....On my way to work I was hit off my brand new SV1000 (i've had it 2 weeks, some of you might remember me posting pics of it the other week) at a roundabout I was turning right and the plank coming straight onto the roundabout opposite, pulled out and hit me side on completely T-boned me!! Crushed my leg between his car and my bike, I got the full sweet ambulance, emergency car, police lots of blue flashy stuff and was carted off to A&E. Luckily after havin my leg x-rayed it doesnt appear to be broken but my foot is focking killing me and very swollen, doc says there may be small fractures somewhere but nothing major. While this was all happening the police, god bless the long arm of the law, were dragging my BRAND NEW ONLY HAD FOR 2 WEEKS bike out of the road and left it on the pavement, as they wouldn't recover it??!!!

So I gimp out of hospital on crutches luckily my girlfriend picked me up and was driving me around, so we went back to the roundabout to check on my bike....alas to find it not there?! Hmmm I think to myself I wonder what could have possibly have happened to a beautiful unlocked, unalarmed, unattended V-twin with only 10k on the clock and thousands of pounds of mods done to it?! Ofcourse some pikey has half inched it!!!!!! I ring the attending officer back and was like wtf where did u leave it? They kindly came back and said "right here but its not here now so you'll need to report it stolen"....BRILLIANT!

So I cant walk, i'm on crutches, cant work and have NO bike!! This is one hell of an insurance mess! and fk me i'm not a happy bunny! BRAND NEW BIKE!!!

I'd love any serving coppers on here to tell me why they weren't allowed to recover my bike? The cop asked if I would like it recovered as I was being wheeled into the ambulance, I said yes, he said it'd cost around £100, I said fine, he then came back and said ive just been told we're not allowed to recover it, so we've left it on the pavement?!!!

I'm just sooo gutted right now! Where it was left was a nice part of Bristol as well, and on a corner of a busy mini roundabout! And before any1 ask's I have checked all the local recovery groups, council and police to double check it's not been towed. This will be interesting to see how the insurance company handle this, i'm 100% in the clear though, the copper said the driver might be done for driving without due care an attention!

So please if anyone see's an SV that USED to look like this for sale, please let me know...

I'll update with the reg number if I get it...