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Turning right at a roundabout, car coming from the opposite side decides to straightline the rounabout without looking, t-bones me at 25mph just as I'm about to exit roundabout. Bike at police station to be collected and inspected later.
The front corner of the car hit the front half of the bike (throwing me over the bonnet to smash the windscreen with my head, nice!). It hit hard enough to put a 45 degree bend in some alloy drops. Only other damage (from what I could tell when in shock, dazed & confused by the roadside immediately following the accident) seems to be from the bike bouncing/sliding down the road and some destroyed kit.
Question is regarding the fork. Even if it looks perfectly fine, would it be wise to trust a full carbon fork with carbon steerer that's taken an impact in one of the blades and one that hit the bars enough to banana them? Surely that impact to the bars is going to have sent some serious forces through the steerer? Stem is slammed, so not so much moment/leverage about the top of the headset I suppose, but still.
Is it something I should be asking to be replaced regardless of how it appears visually?