More accident info

Last week two police constables came round to take my statement. I have a suspicion nothing much is going to come of it since it involved a bicycle. I could be proved wrong however. In any case it's good to get this documented for future reference.

On Friday I went in to have my dressings changed, and have the shoulder checked out to see how I was doing. I had an x-ray done, which showed the bone was healing well. I also took some pictures while still I was there. Unfortunately none of them came out very well with any one of them being of any use. If you want to take a look at it you can click here but be warned it's rather gory.

This morning the insurance adjuster came out to see me. She was somewhat surprised the other driver had not already contacted them. Apparently I was the first person to contact them about this accident, the driver is supposed to contact the insurance. The adjuster said that I was considered to be the same as a pedestrian, ie a vulnerable road user, and it was a driver's responsibility to take care around me. I told her what happened, and she took a witness statement from me. She is going to e-mail it to me so I can check it out and then send it back to her. She said (without prejudice) that it looked like a pretty open and shut case to her. The next step is to talk to a medical adjustors tomorrow. I don't think there's much going to be coming out of this as haven't got any real medical expenses yet. The insurance adjuster also went over the $2500 cap that applied if any injury lasted less than a year.

This week I get to have my dressings changed, and then next week I get the pins taken out. I'll then to get to get into physio and I'll get tested to find out what the range of motion of my arm like after having been in a sling for so long. With any luck I should get full reuse of my arm.