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Victim of road violence, now road safety advocate. Member and spokesperson for Friends and Families for Safe Streets. @ffsafestreets #BikeTO #WalkTO She/Her
May 20, 2019 20 tweets 8 min read
It's been 4 years today nearly to the minute since the driver of a 300HP 4,600lb SUV made a negligent left turn and slammed her oversized, overpowered vehicle into my body while I was riding my bike to work. I have been living with the fallout ever since. #BikeTO Image She inflicted a broken spine, brain injury, severe soft tissue damage to my left side. I developed a deep vein thrombosis in my left leg, and later a big piece of that clot broke off, chewed through my heart, and landed across both lobes of my lungs. That's often fatal.