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HIRED, BUT NOT REQUIRED

I was riding through town filtering down the outside of traffic backed up from some roadworks when an old codger in a Capri pulled out from the line of traffic to do a U-turn, and wiped me out. I went down like a sack of potatoes and the old Capri came to a grinding halt with a bent bonnet and a broken radiator piddling coolant everywhere. Eventually an ambulance arrived, scooped me up and off I went to hospital. I broke my tib and fib and have had eight months of hell with an operation and intensive physiotherapy.

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