Barrie
Registered user
Dear Friends,
As it is the touring season I wanted to remind those of you who do not already know to get an E111 form from the post office in good time before you leave for Europe. If you already have one from last year it MIGHT need renewing.
NB:-
About this time last year I was setting off to SW France on my trusty and much loved 1150 GS, I got about 30kms past Le Mans and was hit head on by a 74 year old lady who had gone to sleep at the wheel !!! The bike was fully loaded with luggage and stuff [I was alone] and the impact shot me through her windscreen then on......... this was as near to fatal accident one could have and survive ! Now I get to the point........ I was in hospitals in France for 4 months where I had several complicated operations, after I woke from a six week coma. two months in intensive care. By the time I had arrived back to the UK hospital in November last year my French hospital bill was about £500,000 ! So a good job I had an up to date E111 card with me.
Had I not had the card the repercussion on the family finances would have been disastrous !
Needless to say my bike was a write-off. I am still on crutches and making great progress but I must say the French medical team saved my life for which both my family and I are eternally grateful.
This was my first accident on a bike after some 30 years of biking all over the world.
Barrie.
As it is the touring season I wanted to remind those of you who do not already know to get an E111 form from the post office in good time before you leave for Europe. If you already have one from last year it MIGHT need renewing.
NB:-
About this time last year I was setting off to SW France on my trusty and much loved 1150 GS, I got about 30kms past Le Mans and was hit head on by a 74 year old lady who had gone to sleep at the wheel !!! The bike was fully loaded with luggage and stuff [I was alone] and the impact shot me through her windscreen then on......... this was as near to fatal accident one could have and survive ! Now I get to the point........ I was in hospitals in France for 4 months where I had several complicated operations, after I woke from a six week coma. two months in intensive care. By the time I had arrived back to the UK hospital in November last year my French hospital bill was about £500,000 ! So a good job I had an up to date E111 card with me.
Had I not had the card the repercussion on the family finances would have been disastrous !
Needless to say my bike was a write-off. I am still on crutches and making great progress but I must say the French medical team saved my life for which both my family and I are eternally grateful.
This was my first accident on a bike after some 30 years of biking all over the world.
Barrie.