I also remember waking up when driving a car with headlights on full beam in my face - just managed get back on the right side of the raod - I had dozed off - that was a scare
Twice I have been on mountains were the next day people got killed in avalanches
In this picture
You look a bit like
Ooh, remembered another.
Driving somewhere along an A road in the Yorkshire moors one night about 10pm. It's dark and there's a car in front of me a good 4-5 car lengths away. All of a sudden the car in front of me veers off the road and I'm facing a set of headlights heading towards me on my side of the road. 
Swerved left and ended up in a ditch and the offending car passed right by. I can only assume they were either foreign or drunk.
Week ago last Saturday my bike buddy and I were on the road out of Swanage towards the chain ferry at Studland having just had a cake stop. We were making good headway with Steve taking the lead when my vision started going funny and I stopped. Vision cleared, I set off and it starts going funny again. Next thing I know I open my eyes and am looking at two paramedics and a policeman, ambulance slewed across the road one way and the police car blocking the other way. It appears that after the second time of feeling 'funny' I got off of my bike lay it down on the grass verge then lay down in the road. A motorist had found me and thought that I'd been the victim of a hit and run. Turns out I'd had a heart attack. My second. Stercus accidit.
You on the mend now keefus?
Age six, bad weather, so my father decided on the night before a family wedding that only he would go. Last time I saw him.
More recently...
Camping in the states, I got woken by a bear looking for food outside of my tent, not much fun, i'll tell you
People next to us had left their cool box out!
KT1973 - MemberI was in 'Nam
Posted 2 hours ago #
D28boy - Member
Chippen'nam ?
Thanks I am. Got the blue lights to Poole hospital then a transfer to Bournemouth for a Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. Its a procedure that widens a narrowed coronary artery. Had three stents inserted in an artery, a second artery drilled out and another procedure done to my heart (all done whilst I was awake watching it going on ... really cool). Came out last Sat, got to stay off the bike(s) for about a month but I can handle that.(Just as well as I ordered a Canyon X9 two days before the myocardial infarction (heart attack)and its being delivered w/c 28th)
As an aside the doctor/surgeon said that had I not been as fit as I am I would have been a statistic years ago and that my mother was to blame cus she had angina.
BoardinBob
Cheers!! 
Mid-nineties was blatting over towards Birmingham on my Kawasaki z550. Going up the dual carriageway one lane was closing due to road works and cones formed an ever diminishing line into one lane on the inside. I went to pass a group of four or five cars before two lanes became one. Just as I pulled alongside the last car, for some inexplicable reason it veered right leaving me nowhere to go. I was doing about 80mph and clipped a roadwork sign with My right hand.
The sign actually hit my brake lever slamming it into the bar and into my fingers. The lever snapped and the sharp end cut off my right little finger. The impact also gave me a compound fracture to my right arm.
On later inspection off my bike,I found a huge vertical dent in the petrol tank, meaning that my bars and consequently my front wheel had slammed 90 degrees to the right. Despite all this, I didn't Come off the bike. Had I have done, I would naturally have been thrown left and under the cars I had just passed.
My finger hasn't grown back.......
Few years ago on my commute home on the fosse way Warwickshire. The road undulates quite a lot with long foods and rises. I was in a bit of a post-work thoughts session and it was very dark in early winter. I was following a huge artic up a hill which we crested. I drove this road every day and knew I was in a long straight undulation so I went for the passing move, only, I wasn't on the long section. I was on a short dip just before the long straight. This I knew because from out of nowhere I had headlights coming towards me. I dived left and scraped along the truck and the car flew through us smashing into my right side. Had I been further over, it could have been much worse. My fault though but gladly nobody injured.
30/40mph on a motorbike and came round a corner and lost the front wheel on something. Still unsure what(maybe diesel??) front wheel slipped and then hit the kerb. I went otb and then was thrown along a wall,into a lamppost and then onto a roadsign. Conscious throughout and when the music stopped I picked myself up and tried to get myself off the road but fell over. 3 times. Off to hospital and it was touch and go. The internal injuries were horrendous including a shattered spleen and massive bleeding. I had a shattered shoulder as well. So 1 metal plate,spleen removed,bone transplant and best of all a cathater inserted. I was in hospital a week. Had better days since then!
Couple of years ago, driving home with kids. Tyre goes, car slams into barrier & onto its roof. The sound of the kids screaming amidst the noise a car roof makes on the road.
An accidental starting of a lathe I was operating nearly did for me when I was 20.
A few storm situations in the mountains have had me worried.
A car narrowly avoiding a head-on collision with me this spring.
I managed to get hit by a badman on a motorbike whilst I was messing about in marrakech. I think I nearly died, I dont remember anything about it, thankfully my mate sorted everything out.
I have one memory from the 5 days I was "out" for, and that was waking up to vomit and piss everywhere. It was a cracking city break.
10 yrs ago driving home with the soon to be wife was hit head on by an uninsured driver who had been drinking and come round the corner and lost control on our side of the road(court case which he subsequently went to jail for the police had worked out his speed to be 85mph combined with ours it was over 100mph. car was a write off i was in the passenger side steering wheel went into chest so sternum an ribs went plus leg. wife no injuries part from bad bruising but car had to be cut apart to get her out. I still dont like going down that stretch of road both police and doctors said people dont normally survive that type of crash let alone walk away with so little injuries so thas why i like me biking just appreciate being able to do it.
October 5th 1999 my sister got on the 6:06 First Great Western train at Reading station headed for London. In her bag she had a letter giving her then employers her notice.
It started as an uneventful journey. Crowded as usual so her and her manager both stood up in the gangway between the front 2 carriages.
At 8.06 the crowded thames train to Bedwyn left platform 9 of Paddington station. It would never get there.
At 8:08:25am as the thames train passed under the Portobello bridge the newly qualified driver of the thames train missed a red signal, SN109, and proceeded onto the main down line. The approaching First Great Western train was on the main line travelling at about 80mph on a high speed approach to Paddington station. Shortly after 8:09 the trains collided. The closing speed at the point of impact is believed to have been approx 150mph.
The impact created a massive fireball as the diesel from both trains ignored on impact. The front engine of the FGW train was destroyed and the leading carriage was engulfed in flames. As this carriage derailed it twisted to the right and broke away from the next carriage which carried on through the fireball to come to a rest on its side further up the track. This left my sister on fire, lying on top of her boss in the boor way of this carriage. If she had rolled the other way she would have fallen onto the track and underneath coach g.
The chance that she fell one way rather than the other meant that she now holds a high up position with a major supermarket and was one of the 520 injuries rather than the 31 unfortunate souls who never made it to the destination or saw their loved ones again.
Reconstructive dental surgery and treatment for major burns meant quite a while before she was physically ok. A lot longer for the mental scars to heal.
The worst day of my life. Can't even begin to imagine how bad hers was.
17 years old, flying down a local hill with a mate, late evening getting quite dark, a couple of beers at the local. Half way down just round a slight bend a faint torch being waved in the middle of the road. On with the anchors flying past the torch bearer coming to half about 2 inches short of the live overhead power cables all across the road. A local dickhead (pissed) had ploughed his girlfriends car into the support post. I was luckier than 2 of the 3 nurses that were also in car that night 
. That was a scene i never want to see again.
had a few close calls on my bike with cars and cliffs but managed to ride out or bail out before anything crazy happened but a couple of propper near death experiances
me and my dad 7 am mid january 1990 - aged 5. In the hall way doing up shoes to walk round to the child minders. My dads workboot shoe lace snapped
he tied the two bits together and started to tie his shoe laces. at this point an all mighty rumble started and lots of clattering - the tiles on the roof and decided they were coming off and slid down raining over the door way we would have been standing in had his shoe lace not snapped.
and earlier this year i was driving to work at 6.30am in the van doing 70 in the outside lane of the dual carridge way near the gleaner on the a90 overtaking a tractor
a tractor in the inside lane moved lanes without looking/indicating and was stradling both lanes as i was reaching him , i hit the brakes - no good looked for a way out due to the tillers on the back being at windscreen height, no room for the van on either side - ended up going through a gap in the central reservation meant for cars turning into the petrol station. Twatting the kerb(but managed to straighten the wheels so not to colapse the suspension) onto the south bound carridgeway and round a car which was in the outside lane on that side and back onto the central reservation before coming to a halt
i was just sitting on the central reservation(on the wrong side of the dual carridgeway) shaking for what seemed like ages till someone stopped.
tractor stopped and admitted he hadnt seen me and police werent too happy with him. I was raging !
Out all these posts does anyone feel they now appreciate life more? I always did but now more so.
This was mine:
Human catapult video
I survived, but it killed the guy who went next:
BBC Human Catapult story
Still makes me sick to my boots whenever I think of it.
20/10/01.
I woke up in hospital some twelve hours after being knocked off my bike while crossing the A27 Tesco roundabout during the morning rush hour. I couldn't remember what had happened and strangely, nor could the many other drivers who must've seen the incident. Though largely unharmed, I had to have part of my ear sewn back togther and suffered severe headaches for ten weeks afterward. I was shown my helmet when I released myself from hospital the next day (they wanted to keep me for three days for observation) a third of it was sheared right off. I went cold when I thought that it might have been my head...
Helmets? I'd recommend them but would vigorously oppose compulsion.
You must log in to post.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
