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Wow. That is one helluva story that you are fortunate enough to tell. I'm glad the trucker stopped. Please take the above advice and get checked out by a doctor just to make sure everything is OK.
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Yeah, glad you are relatively ok. I'm trying to type with broken hand, got blown off road on way to sturgis. By the way people, a "straight truck" is not a semi but could be anything from a U-haul rental truck to a seafood delivery truck to a rollback.
Scary tale, glad to hear you're okay. It seems there have been way too many threads on here lately about someone getting hit.
Either someone up above really likes you or it just wasn't your time! I saw a guy go down once at about half that speed. The woman driver wasn't satisfied that she hit him, she had to run him over as well.
I know woulda, coulda, shoulda, hindsight is 20/20, etc., etc., etc. But could you have let off the throttle, applied the brakes and let him continue past you?
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