Both points are well based and common sense has everything to do with it. Not everyone has the capacity or ability to practice common sense. Hell, AZ had to enact a stupid motorist law (btw-that's exactly what's it's called, too). When it rains here, it floods. Common sense would tell most people to not cross a flooded wash, but we have rescues (and deaths) every year because people are stupid. Now these people have to pay for their own rescues.
Anyway, I get scratches and bruises nearly every single day. For the most part I don't report them. It's not necessary. Common sense tells me when an injury is serious and needs to be reported. An ankle sprain, should be reported. More than likely it will heel with little residual effect, though that is not a given and should be evaluated by a professional.
TRPL, thank you. Everyday is one day closer to being heeled. He is getting better every day. The news yesterday, the doctors are starting to bring him out of his coma. It was induced to keep him from moving around to much. They removed the drain tubes from his head and the swelling is gone. He is reacting to light stimuli. The part of the brain that took most of the impact is the part that affects speech and until he is fully conscious we won't know how much damaged he suffered.
We have been trying to figure out what happened. He is an experienced rider, and the scene doesn't make any sense. He didn't hit anything. If it had been a deer, there probably would have been hair imbedded in the shattered windshield. There wasn't any. There was hardly any other damage to the bike. I don't know!!!!!