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May we all have a brief moment of silence please for my dearly beloved S3. She was just broken in and tastefully modded when a pickup truck ended her short life. We were in the left lane in traffic on Rt 276 going thru Brevard NC at 3 PM Sunday, on our way home from the Blue Ridge Parkway. Going about 35-40 MPH when the truck in the right lane decided to swerve sharply into the left lane. I hit the brakes hard but he came over so fast he took out the front wheel and deposited us on the pavement. I never saw Speedy again. Fortunately, the traffic behind didn't run me over but I knew there were broken bone(s). I just lay in the median waiting for the EMS and police who were there in minutes. The local Transylvania Community Hospital was only about a mile away and they cut off all my clothing and took x-rays. Turned out to be just a broken collar bone and some deep brusing. Speedy was not so lucky. Per the nice officer, the front wheel is broken, forks bent, bars gone, back wheel ground down, radiator and oil cooler ruptured, tank scratched and dented, cases scraped, etc. The insurance company has not officially declared her totalled but both the cop and EMS said she is gone.
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