another bike crash!

I'm not a great athlete, but I've been doing mini (or sprint) triathlons for several years to keep in shape. I enjoy every aspect of it! The training makes me feel fit and healthy, and the events themselves are great fun! So... one afternoon I was nearing the end of my 12 mile bike loop. I was riding on a straight road and going about 17 mph into a pretty stiff wind. I was focused on my pedaling and trying to put a bit more energy into making a good time. All of the sudden, I saw a white van in front of me! And that's where my memory ends. The van had come from the opposite direction and turned left directly in front of me. I rode my bike straight into it with my face leading the way. I smashed into it and broke my jaw and nearly tore my ear off. There were many other sore and badly bruised places - but the jaw and ear were the worst. After five days in the hospital and two surgeries, I came home with my mouth wired shut. -ellen garto

jaw breaker.

Welcome to Dees blog! My blog is about when I was nine years old I broke my jaw two days before Christmas, me and my friend Justin Phillips were waiting for me to go to a party that someone we knew was throwing for christmas. so we got bored like a usual little kid would. So we were going to race around the block one of us was just going to go around the block, and the other one was just going to run to the other stop sign. I was on a bike and he wasn’t allowed to go around the block that late at night so I was the one that went around the block on my bike. So we were off there I went as fast as I can and I was coming around their first corner and I hit white sand on my front tire and it slid out from under me and bam!! I hit chin first and I felt and herd my jaw snap sideways then blackness. When I became conscience   Justin was carrying me and dragging my bike behind us he was crying too. I looked down and my white shirt was no longer white blood was everywhere all over me all over Justin on the street and on my bike .the walk felt like it took twenty minutes then I get to my house and my mom I guess had been looking for me she was at the screen door waiting for me. Then she saw me and started screaming she went next door and talked to Justin’s mom and asked her if she thought I needed stitches and the answer was a definite yes. My mom and dad rushed me to the hospital and I was put in the O.R . and I got eleven stitches in my chin and my jaw was fractured on both side the doctor said that if the crack was just a hair bigger I would have had to have my jaw wired shut.