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Nope.

Hmmm. What about 'major accident' ($3K damage to motorcycle, trip to neighborhood care center, x-rays and a cast) involving another vehicle, but NO CONTACT... the other vehicle was an 18 wheeler that was over the centerline in a curve?

I guess my answer is then, YES.

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yes, in my younger days on a scooter, someone made a left turn in front of me and stopped in the intersection, given the choice of hitting the car at the best point i could or swerving into oncoming traffic, went for the rear quarter panel and went over the trunk, as did the scooter, conveninently landing on top of me, I came out of it with only some light scars on my shins, and now i am very cautious at intersections

Nope, thankfully never.

It's only letting me choose one answer. I pick the 1st three. The only one I'm missing is the major single vehicle (but I'm still young ).

Yes. I'm the major single vehicle.

upon entering the four lane I immediately moved into the left lane to pass the slow car I followed up the on ramp. I steadied up in the center of the lane instead of the "groove". As I went over an overpass (maybe 100 yds from the onramp) there was about 15 ft of old asphalt repair before the bridge concrete. The asphalt was all pushed up in bumps in the center of the lane from the TT's. This bounced the bike all over as I hung on for dear life at about 65mph, the last bump snapped the bars tight to full lock on the right and I got to play Superman.

Pretty much everything down the left side was replaced. $4500 damage to the bike.

Left kneecap broken in half. EMT thought my shin was a compound fracture, but it was actually the bottom half of my kneecap laying on the shinbone.
$25,000 in medical bills and lost wages.

The cager I had just passed stopping to call 911 and waiting with me for the ambulance. (She was also a vol fire something). Priceless.

Uhhh...

I flipped a 4 wheeler because my friend neglected to tell me he ONLY had front brakes...

I crashed a scooter because of sand on a back road by a beach...

I crashed a scooter into a truck as I was passing him on his left (He had his RIGHT blinker on) but unfortunately he turned left instead...

I never crashed my CB-750 but once as I was just tooling around following my friends dirt bike in his back yard on grass...nothin bad I just picked it up, brushed off the grass and kept going

I crashed my SV-1000 going wayyyy too fast on a road I always race on. Totaled the bike (Took out a fence and two concrete poles) and broke my pinky, fractured my kneecap, and had some roadrash.

I've never crashed my VTX-1800 (knock on wood)

I had to post all this because I did not fit into any one of your poll catagories...but I would also say that each accident taught me worlds about safety...and I consider myself a much more experianced rider today
(I know traction differences on grass and sand, NEVER to trust a car or its blinker, always check to make sure your brakes are in good order, and don't travel insanely fast even when you think you can because its not worth the risk.)

My boss says that "Every biker has one good accident and never drives the same after that"

And I'd say I'd really have to agree with him. Until you understand how easy it is to lose traction, and how much pain a broken bone and road rash are...You don't have as much respect for the machine under you and its tolerances.

I have had a couple minor snowmobile accidents, only one resulted in an injury, hit a tree and sprained my thumb (awwww, poor baby eh?) also managed to knock the cowling of the sled back about a foot....

Stupid trees run right infront of you I say!

I had the worst case scenario...crashing a customers bike.
It all started when a lady called the dealership complaining that her Kawasaki Eliminator 600 just puked 4 quarts of oil all over the parking lot at her work. Another tech and I went to retrieve the bike...this was in my early wrenching days when I had to do b.s. like that
Sure enough, there was her bike in a freakin' pool of oil. The bike is shaft driven and I found that it had blown out the front bevel gear oil seal.
We take it back to the shop and I install a new one. No big deal.
On the test drive, I am going through a 45mph sweeper turn in a residential neighborhood, maybe doing 50. As I come out of the apex, the back tire steps out, and I mean WAY out. Like I am reading her license plate out.
Just as I get the bike straightened out, it goes into a vicious tank slapper. I never remember hitting the ground, just the bars being ripped from my hands and then me sliding. I was sliding long enough for me to think, "Man, I sure am sliding a LONG time!" I was able to set my weight on my boot and my wallet, which I always keep in my right front pocket. The whole time I am sliding I am watching the bike spin on its side about 20 feet further up the road.
I finally slowed down some and tried to stand up, which promptly put me back on my butt. Once I regained my footing, I ran over to the bike and picked it up.
To my left I hear a dog barking and look over. There is an elderly women in her bath robe standing at her front door with her mouth open, a phone in her hand and her dog by her side. I ran up to her with ripped clothes (Of couse all I had on was my work short sleeved shirt and those flimsy "O Ring" work pants) and covered in goo. The road rash was not deep enough to bleed...much... just that clear sticky goo that weeps out.
I called the shop and they came to pick me up. When examined, we found that the oil seal had once again blown out and had coated the rear tire in oil.
I went to the hospital and got the gravel brushed out of my arms and legs, which is the one and only time I have ever come close to passing out.
The damage to her bike was about 2 grand. She was as understanding as one could expect in that situation. At least the first thing she asked about was if I was all right.
I was curious as to what caused the problem. Another guy that I refuse to even call a tech simply took a punch and knurled up the sealing surface where the seal goes and slammed in a new one. I guess it worked, it never came back.

That sucks. I was thinking how much it would suck if something like that happened. I would feel so bad about it. But it really wasn't your fault I guess, if the rear tire had oil on it, then at least it wasn't worse. If you had been on the highway, you could be dead.