--- title: tracey bike accident — walks away scraped but OK author: tracey pooh type: post date: 2009-05-18 featured: accident.jpg featuredalt: tracey bike accident -- walks away scraped but OK featuredcaption: tracey bike accident -- walks away scraped but OK categories: - biking tags: - accident - biking - training ride comment: --- ouchie! A steel cruiser bike roared blindly out of a blind drive and ran into me.  The impact "taco-ed" (crumpled) my wheel and pitched me over the handle bars and the 2nd bike. I hit the pavement, but managed to not break anything or hit my head. I scraped up my fingers, tore up 4 fingernails, and scraped my elbow and knee. Later we'd learn it was all surface stuff and only my front wheel needed replacing. **_Amazingly lucky to have had so little damage!_** I was prolly doing 10-15 mph; other rider maybe 7-10.  All of this happened right in front of Hunter's horrified eyes! More [pictures on public Facebook album](http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=112686&id=825599781&l=15d76a7dba)