Scottish Elises

I was down vising friends in Kilbarchan.
Driving home I pulled off the M8 for Stirling. A little along this road there is a long right hand bend.

Coming round there, there is a biker lying at the side of the road. Car infront of me drives round him and goes off.

I stopped. Ran to him where he is groaning and his face is pishin of blood.

I'm like...Are you OK....totally panicking!
He is not making much sense. Tries to say something to me but just spits blood in my face...nice!!! Couple of specks.

Another car stops.

I call the ambulance which was there in about 5-10 mins - excellent.

By this time the biker has got up and is shouting a little for me to take his helmet off. I'm said no way man. I can't do that.

Shouts at me to take it off and starts to stuggle.
So I unclip it and he pulls it off and sits down on the barrier.

Had me call his friends in Falkirk who is actually a nurse!

Very very lucky man.
He will be badly bruised.
Helmet took a hammering. That and his leathers saved him!

G

How could anyone see someone lying hurt and drive off!?

Possible scared to what they might find.
I didn't know if he was dead of alive.

Anyway, ive just been told:

He broke his thumb,
6 ribs
and has a punctured lung.

He is giving the bikes up.

Jesus...

Good style about being reticent to remove his helmet... It was about a year or so ago on the Yahoo group where Iain Ferguson posted about doing a first aid course and then using it a few days later in a motorbike accident.

But good on you for stopping and sorting the situation out. He's a lucky man...

IIRC, the story was that Iain completed his first aid and saw a kid get run down the same day!

Yeah - knew it was something like that... Sorry, had a heavy weekend

Shug

Bloody el! Scary Stuff.

cant believe someone didnt stop! Bet he/she would want someone to stop if that happened to him.

Well done for helping, G. Can't have been pleasant...
Makes me glad I sold the bike. I keep having the impulse to get another one and then I hear a story like that...
It's too easy to exceed your skill level on a bike when any old 600 will break the speed limit in second gear. And when you get it wrong, the consequences are so much worse.
Had a boozy debate with a biker on friday in the pub - he reckoned there was no risk because he was a ten year rider and never did anything dangerous. Refused to admit that spilt diesel on the road, cars overtaking on bends, half blind giffers in Volvos etc. could put him at risk

Still, that said, for thrills per £ , you'll struggle to beat a bike. I guess you take your chance...

G

Top marks for stopping

Hopefully your reward will come at some unexpected moment

No award expected.
Is it not just human nature to help??

Karma, old bean. But yeah - it should be frigging human nature, but these days you can count on nothing.

By reward, I meant Karma

mmmmmmmmmmm

Yikes... glad to hear he is ok anyway, I hope you poked one of his wounds for spitting blood in your face!

I guess it shows why the police dont like bikers too much. When my mate got done for speeding on his they said to him "You're the kind of bugger we have to scrape off the road..."

The idea of a bike has always appealed but I think it would be track-use only, if I were even allowed that! My girlfriend had a horrific experience when an oncoming biker lost control on a corner, bike threw him off and he ploughed into the front of her car at combined speed of 100mph+. Luckily for her the bike veered off to the side. Bloke was tatties.

Well done Gareth, can't believe anyone would drive past someone injured. I once attended an accident where a wee boy had been knocked down at a crossing and broke his leg. I had literly just passed my first aid exam five minutes before it. The British Red Cross spoke to me last week about a campaign they are running soon to give drivers first aid skills so I am sure they would be more than interested in your story and it would help a good cause if they had more examples to use. Give Will Slater at the British Red Cross a phone on 0207 877 7042 as your story may be of use in their campaign.

Was up the Campsies yesterday with my mate on our bikes. He was following me and comming towards a bend obscured by trees and the sun shinning towards us, I applied the brakes as I approched the bend. Suddenly I felt the bike start to break away. There was a bad patch of gravel right in the normal riding line on the approach to the bend. Luckily I managed to regain control and slow the bike slightly once I hit some better road surface. I then watched in my mirrors and saw my friend end up going wide to miss the crap surface. He ended up too wide and lost grip in the crap at the side of the road. The bike's back end came around and off he went. Luckily we hadn't being going too fast, but he still fractured his collarbone. Helmet took a good bashing as well.

Was quite frightening to turn around and come back up to the scene and see him lying motionless in the road. A pick up had stopped and luckily the guy was the head of the local mountain rescue team so soon had the police and ambulance out. The Police could see quite easily how the accident had happened. The state of the road was quite bad for cars, let alone bikes. In fact another car slide a little on the approach to the bend when he braked after seeing the Police.

Felt a bit dazed after it but have to admit that the run from Fintry back over to Lennoxtown cleared my brain a bit.

Iain