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Mille
Posts: 293
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Bridgwater, Somerset.
Mood: On the mend!
message from tt stu - UPDATED 10/09/05
I have been asked by TT Stu to inform you that his Ducati 999 is no more!!!
My name is Hayley and I am TT Stu's P.A. at work and a fellow biker outside of work ('93 Honda CBR900RR Fireblade)
I met up with him on a slightly overcast Thursday evening (25 August) at Hunters Lodge, Wincanton. We had the usual biker chats whilst wandering the car park eyeing up all the two wheeled beauties.
The clouds in the sky were getting nearer and darker so the car park emptied quickly! We decided to make our way home too, together with another work colleague and my boyfriend.
We went through Wincanton town centre taking the A371 toward Castle Cary. Our engines were just starting to warm as were our tyres. The four of us stayed close together Stu was leading, I was 2nd with the other two following we were flowing round the bends. Then, just coming up to a left hand bend we saw the tanker going in the opposite direction and Stu getting too close for comfort!!!
There was nothing we could do, he was banked over into the corner but not enough to stop him from having a very near head on with the tanker. BANG - The bike breaks up into a million pieces, just like a party popper, Stu, narrowly missing me, fly's in front of me towards the hedge. I ride through a shower of Ducati with something getting caught in my front wheel, which, after giving me my first tank slapper experiene, works its way loose and I come to a halt up the road.
Stu was upsidedown in the hedge, surprised and relieved to hear that he was alive and screaming in pain he was taken to Frenchay by Air Ambulance.
Extremely lucky to still be alive he has a broken femur and collar bone and lacerations to his upper arm and foot.
Thankfully he was wearing all the right gear as he had a boot riped off, which would of otherwise been his foot, and the paramedic said it was only his leathers that was holding his leg together!!
Stu has now been moved to Taunton where he is doing well, everything is healing as it should and he is appreciating the fact that he is still alive.
I will print off any replys/comments to this and pass them onto him. I'm sure he would be pleased to hear from you.
Ride safely...you can't enjoy your bike from a hospital bed!
Hayley x
[Edited on 10-9-2005 by ttstu]
[Edited on 10-9-2005 by ttstu]