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Certainly an eventful day. The scary part (and I should start with "He's OK"). Zack had a pretty serious motorcycle accident, trying to pass a car on rte 63 in Goshen that decided to pass the driver in front without looking to see who was coming from behind. Zack ended up crashing, sliding into the guardrail. I'm sure it was dramatic to see. After the cops and the ambulance visit (he declined transport) I went out to get him with the truck and trailer. His motorcycle jacket did its job. It was shredded in the shoulder and the back, but he wasn't. Also fine work from his full face helmet that is pretty well sanded down on the right side, but maintained its integrity (and more importantly his).
He was on his new bike of 2 days, and the structure of it and the fairing in particular saved him some really serious injury, The crash bars saved his leg, fairing saved his hand.
So the upshot is a young man a bit more cautious, with three patches of road rash none bigger than a half dollar and a rather painfully sprained thumb, but nothing worse. The bike is perhaps totaled. Not such a bad result..
And then we got home in time for Easter dinner, very pleasant visit from PG and Gail, Charles Jr, Raakel and Rebekah. And a lot of relief all the way around at how lucky we were.