I just found out this morning that a co-worker who took a slip on some black Ice on his commute in Thursday has a fractured Hip and a broken collar bone, fortunately it was while making a turn onto a minor B road so no traffic trundled over him...
He'd made it in to work and, although visibly shaken, didn't seem seriously hurt at the time which sort of suggested the stack was a minor one, turns out it wasn't and he had to have an Op' on his Hip over the weekend 
It's a real shame as he's a nice Lad, young, pretty fit and well into his Road riding, I think this incident means he'll be missing out on some races this summer, or at least not getting to do the training he was hoping beforehand.
It's also just made me wonder how I get away with so much on the MTB (touch wood) - Saturday morning I was knocking about in the woods, DH bike, piss pot, knee pads and flying off things left right and centre, had a couple of tidy stacks, all tangled with the bike, and other than the odd bruise no harm done. Is woodland realy that much softer?
Anyone got comparable experiences?
