Last May 21st. I work nights at 10 mins till 10 I struck a Raccoon and went down hard broken collar bone broken scapula 8 broken ribs two which still wont knit and a punctured lung. I was wearing an armor jacket boots new HJC CL Max 2 helmet and gloves it was a two lane road so after checking on the important things fingers, toes, neck all worked fine and had good feeling I did a quick assessment and decided the middle of a lane was not the best position to be in so tried to get up and that's when I felt the scapula crackling around so crawled off of the pavement and waited for someone to come along.
Nice lady stopped saw me and asked if she could help yes I replied call 911. the ambulance ride sucked SOB hit every bump in road. I didn't realize how bad it was until the ER doc looked over the xrays and asked me if I had a helmet on, since I was the first person living with these injuries. sobering On thursday Finally had surgery for collarbone nothing else. four weeks later went to surgeons for evaluation he saw our jackets and helmets and told me I was healed and get out.
So we have been riding since all summer the bike suffered very little damage from the ordeal and have put a little over 5,000 miles on it since then One item I did add was a much brighter headlamp a 55 watt HID unit from
http://www.ddmtuning.com/Product-Categories/Motorcycle-HID-Kits-Lighting The kits are cheap but the shipping sucks. I am mostly healed but very leery of little animals darting into the roadway.