What injuries were suffered during your crash?

[tached1000rr]

Well thought I'd start this topic after my what did you learn from your crash thread, so

What injuries did you suffer?
Approximate speed at the time of the crash?
Have you mentally gotten over "the crash"?

[rogue]

I'll play even though my crashes weren't near as bad as what alot of others have experienced.

First crash was a lowspeed lowside in a curve. More damage done to the bike than me. I had a small bruise on my hip and shoulder where I hit the ground. My jacket and my jeans didn't have a mark on them. The bike had a broken left mirror and shifter peg. I rode her home as I had no choice. :lol:

I had a huge phobia of blind left hand curves after that. I still do but not bad as I once did.


The second crash was in a bad downpour. I was riding pillion this time. I slid/rolled/tumbled about 200 feet. The bike was totaled, but me and my friend walked away with nothing more than a little bruising. The next day I rode 500 miles home, half of it in the rain, most of which was a downpour...again. There's nothing like immediately having the same circumstances as a prior crash to help you get over that fear. :lol: I'm still not too fond of riding in the rain, but can and will do it.

Knowing myself, I know if I had let time lapse between crash and riding again, it would have made me leary of riding. I'm actually glad I immediately got back on and rode again. It definitely helped me. :)

[Yamerhaw]

1st crash, about 55mph, looped wheelie: chipped pelvis, and shin, lost a LOT of skin off my legs, back, arms, and hands, hands were the worst as i was sliding on the pavement trying to stop myself, in the ambulance they gave me something for pain...well i was allergic to it, so i'm laying in the hospital bleeding from everywhere, now my head is swelled so bad from the allergic reaction, that they cant get my helmet off....and if you think using a wire brush to get out road debris is an old wives tale, you sir ARE WRONG! and that shit hurts, well that hospital didnt do a good enough job, so i went to another the next day for more wire brushing and cutting off some dead skin with scissors, couldnt dress or feed myself very well for a couple of weeks or more, cause my hands were so bad

2nd crash: car in front of me turned off to the right, so i keep going straight, car decides it wanted to go left instead, cut back in front of me, swerving either way would have hit parked cars on the side of the street, had a girl with me, so instead of chancing t-boning the car and launching her over it, i laid it down(in this fraction of a second seemed like the best plan) passenger was kinda on top of me, and i pushed her off to the side, my body hits underneath the drivers door area as the bike bounces off the back bumper, well any driver that wasn't a complete retard would have stopped then, she didnt , and drove over the top of my left leg, hip, ribs, shoulder, etc, i kept my eyes open and turned my head before the car ran over it too, the dumb bitch said "OMG, i thought i ran over something" i said "you think so, ya stupid bitch" fractured my pelvis, broke about all the ribs on the left side, broke shoulder, collar bone, etc, thank God it was a toyota!

the girl with me just had scuffed knees and elbows,

cops gave me a ticket a MONTH later for following too close, judge threw it out though!

oh, and the bike, well it was somebody elses, had about 300 miles on it, some girls wanted to ride, but he was a new rider and afraid to ride passengers so he wanted me to take them for a ride:idk:

[tached1000rr]

Yamerhaw, did you have gloves on during the 1st accident?

[jalaan1]

-compression/burst fracture of T7(thoracic vertebrea #7)
in other words... broke my back:tremble:
-don't remember the speed
-mentally, over it

[Yamerhaw]

Yamerhaw, did you have gloves on during the 1st accident?


shorts, t shirt, tennis shoes, no gloves... i was a newbie back then

[Mr Lefty]

My ego took a hit... that was probably the most severe injury...

then my ankle...which was badly sprained...

[Fleck750]

45mph curve, wide open, went off road, got back on, high sided. Don't know what caused it, BF was riding 50 feet in front of me. Left shin had to have staples, collarbone is still out of place a year later, cracked ribs. I lost a whole week mentally, but was online posting and making phone calls up the wazoo. :idk:
It has left me a little leery of riding curves. It took 6 weeks before I was able to get back on the bike, A week later, it blew a connecting rod, oil starvation due to the wreck, I assume. Had to wait another 9 months before we could put another motor in it, so it was like being a newbie all over again.

Can just safely say I enjoy riding, but the thought of losing what much of my life is sobering, so Rossi is safe in his title.

[nhgunnut]

Last one I borke bones in both feet it was at the end of my driveway,

[askmrjesus]

High speed + gravel+ dark + guardrail = lowside, both legs, six ribs, left arm, collar bone, and a concussion.

Six weeks in traction (this was before all the fancy pins and screws were common).

Bike destroyed.

Mentally over it, but wiser now.

I've probably crashed about 50 times in the dirt since then, but no injuries, save for a few ''dents''.

JC

[Racerboy]

#1, 1993, 10 years into being a rider, low sided in gravel at about 30 mph because I dropped a pack of cigarettes. Broken throttle wrist, some how so amp'd up I was able to get the bike going and ride it home before going to the hospital. Time to quit smoking.

#2, Oct 20th, 2000, Head On Collision, 50 mph, car going about 15 mph. 5 major separations of the pelvis, right leg sent through hip socket 4", left foot 4 bones broken, left ankle broken, Elbow detached and left hand sent backwards underneath Triceps, Radial head destroyed, Radius shattered, plate and 4 screws installed, Was in Pelvic Halo for 104 days, have two 9" rods side-to-side in rear of pelvis, 4 permanent screws in the front, 6 months in hospital and 6 more in and out of rehab centers. What did I learn? No riding in the left lane, center only for about a year after I started riding again. Took me another year to go by the accident site with out flinching.

#3 April 15, 2003. Rear ended a car who's driver decided to turn right from the middle lane...(I was in the right lane)....Stayed on the bike as it did a complete barrel roll after impact. Double break of Left Clavicle, Left Elbow re-broken, both wrists compression fractured, 6 left side ribs, right thumb broken from joint-to-joint requiring pins to reconnect, re-broke left ankle, 6 hours in hospital, 9 weeks recovery. Learned to watch for Haitian women as most in South FL are not licensed or insured. Make sure personal insurance is high so when you sue you own insurance co. for payment, its enough.

#4 Memorial Day 2006. I was rear ended while practicing at Moroso Motorsports Park by a fellow rider in my same class. Broken: Right Scapula (top to bottom) left middle finger, 6 ribs on right side, left ankle again. 5 days in trauma center, 9 weeks before going back to work. Learned NOT to talk to the points leader in the class before race about how close I was to catching him for the championship....since he is the one who crashed into me.

[tached1000rr]

#1, 1993, 10 years into being a rider, low sided in gravel at about 30 mph because I dropped a pack of cigarettes. Broken throttle wrist, some how so amp'd up I was able to get the bike going and ride it home before going to the hospital. Time to quit smoking.

#2, Oct 20th, 2000, Head On Collision, 50 mph, car going about 15 mph. 5 major separations of the pelvis, right leg sent through hip socket 4", left foot 4 bones broken, left ankle broken, Elbow detached and left hand sent backwards underneath Triceps, Radial head destroyed, Radius shattered, plate and 4 screws installed, 6 months in hospital and 6 more in and out of rehab centers. What did I learn? No riding in the left lane, center only for about a year after I started riding again. Took me another year to go by the accident site with out flinching.

#3 April 15, 2003. Rear ended a car who's driver decided to turn right from the middle lane...(I was in the right lane)....Stayed on the bike as it did a complete barrel roll after impact. Double break of Left Clavicle, Left Elbow re-broken, both wrists compression fractured, 6 left side ribs, right thumb broken from joint-to-joint requiring pins to reconnect, re-broke left ankle, 6 hours in hospital, 9 weeks recovery. Learned to watch for Haitian women as most in South FL are not licensed or insured. Make sure personal insurance is high so when you sue you own insurance co. for payment, its enough.

#4 Memorial Day 2006. I was rear ended while practicing at Moroso Motorsports Park by a fellow rider in my same class. Broken: Right Scapula (top to bottom) left middle finger, 6 ribs on right side, left ankle again. 5 days in trauma center, 9 weeks before going back to work. Learned NOT to talk to the points leader in the class before race about how close I was to catching him for the championship....since he is the one who crashed into me.

Damn!

[Fleck750]

Damn!

Maybe he's Evil Knievel's stunt double? :hss:

Damn is an understatement. :)

[wildchild]

#1, 1993, 10 years into being a rider, low sided in gravel at about 30 mph because I dropped a pack of cigarettes. Broken throttle wrist, some how so amp'd up I was able to get the bike going and ride it home before going to the hospital. Time to quit smoking.

#2, Oct 20th, 2000, Head On Collision, 50 mph, car going about 15 mph. 5 major separations of the pelvis, right leg sent through hip socket 4", left foot 4 bones broken, left ankle broken, Elbow detached and left hand sent backwards underneath Triceps, Radial head destroyed, Radius shattered, plate and 4 screws installed, Was in Pelvic Halo for 104 days, have two 9" rods side-to-side in rear of pelvis, 4 permanent screws in the front, 6 months in hospital and 6 more in and out of rehab centers. What did I learn? No riding in the left lane, center only for about a year after I started riding again. Took me another year to go by the accident site with out flinching.

#3 April 15, 2003. Rear ended a car who's driver decided to turn right from the middle lane...(I was in the right lane)....Stayed on the bike as it did a complete barrel roll after impact. Double break of Left Clavicle, Left Elbow re-broken, both wrists compression fractured, 6 left side ribs, right thumb broken from joint-to-joint requiring pins to reconnect, re-broke left ankle, 6 hours in hospital, 9 weeks recovery. Learned to watch for Haitian women as most in South FL are not licensed or insured. Make sure personal insurance is high so when you sue you own insurance co. for payment, its enough.

#4 Memorial Day 2006. I was rear ended while practicing at Moroso Motorsports Park by a fellow rider in my same class. Broken: Right Scapula (top to bottom) left middle finger, 6 ribs on right side, left ankle again. 5 days in trauma center, 9 weeks before going back to work. Learned NOT to talk to the points leader in the class before race about how close I was to catching him for the championship....since he is the one who crashed into me.


given that I would either hang it up or drastically change the way I ride.

I have been very fortunate. No downs on street and in the dirt worse was a high side into soft loam so just scrapes and bruises.

Worst experience was watching my son miss a turn and go flipping through trees at nearly 40 MPH. Ripe old age of 13. Only thing he remembers is that I could suddenly fly as I jumped down the ravine to get to him. Result of that was two hyper extended knees, scrapes and bruises and broken helmet. No concussion luckily. Oh and a cold ass as he was laying in a creek when I got to him.

[R1up0n1]

I'm not going to go into a lot of detail because some people know the details and the extent of my crash in 2007. I was in full leathers, boots, gloves, and helmet. 120 mph crash resulted in a broken collar bone, and that was it.... no rash at all.

Another one I had before that was very minor caused by a driver on the wrong side of the road.... again full leathers, boots, gloves and helmet... no rash, no broken bones...just a rashed up bike.

Moral of the story... full leathers and all the gear save lives.

[MikeSP1]

I've been through quite a few get offs but not anything too serious, I grew up riding dirtbikes and laid down my little 80cc Suzuki quite a few times. I guess it toughened me up and I learned not to freak out. Bruises, cuts, and a few black eyes.

I got into a tangle with a cage while I still had my Shadow. Pregnant chick pulled out in front of me mid-corner. Had absolutely no where to go but into the side of the car. Jacket rode up and I wound up with some road rash, nothing too serious. I was more pissed that I'd just finished repairs not more than 20 minutes prior, bike was totaled.

It takes a lot to shake me mentally anymore, but physical injuries still happen. I learned to just take a deep breath and let all the emotions leave when you exhale. It also helps me that I work on my own bikes, so even if I get injured I can still do something constructive i.e. putting the bike back together if it's worth it.

[KSGregman]

Week-end before Thanksgiving....2005....about 48F outside...went for a ride...attempted a "show off" wheelie...spun up the rear....came off at about 35 maybe? Shattered my right hip socket on impact with the ground....full gear...didn't have a mark on me other than the bruising from the internal bleeding. I didn't walk for 3 months....didn't walk without a limp for another 3 months after that.

Wrong time...wrong place...to push it.... :idk:

[The Awesome]

I would be here all night if I detailed all my crashes, so I'll just profile the most recent one.

Speed was about 160 at the time I made the mistake that started the series of events. Speed at the time I impacted the sand bank at the edge of the track is unknown. Injuries were multiple breaks of my right arm, radial nerve palsy, shoulder ligament damage, and a concussion. I haven't ridden since, so the mental impact is unknown. My desire to race has not changed, I've just chosen not to.

[RedRider2k2]

Nothing really. It was looking like a highside over a cliff but I managed to catch it enough to bring the speed down and turn it into a slower lowside. I hit the ground, did kind of a front flip and was back on my feet running down the hill. I got turned around and ran back to the bike, shut it off and gave it the old adrenaline fueled Hulkamania lift. (This ended up hurting my arm a little.) At this point I realized the bike stopped with the front tire hanging about an inch over the edge of the drop off and when I lifted it the bike tried to roll down it. I had to brace myself and hold it in place while waiting for the guy I was riding with to realize something was wrong and come back to give me a hand.

[z06boy]

Man talk about cringing...just reading some of these responses !! :panic:

Not just for my sake but the fact that my wife rides...man I'd hate for her to go through some of this stuff.

My first accident was 4 days after I bought my first motorcycle and had NO training and very limited experience. :zowned:

I was following too close and the line of cars in front of me locked it down due to an older gentleman pulling out in front of us and then stopping.

I was traveling about 45 mph on a 600 Ninja and locked up the front brake because I thought I was going to hit the pickup truck in front of me...front tires slid out and I went down.

No major injuries but had roadrash from both wrist to both elbows.

I was wearing a t-shirt and no jacket. :idk:

My worst accident was on a BigDog Bulldog cruiser and while rounding a curve to the left with a line of traffic facing me sitting still a guy in a Lexus IS300 decided to turn left in front of me. He was behind a big box truck/U-Haul type and the sun was in his eyes. He didn't see me when he whipped out. I didn't see him until he whipped out as well and I was about 3 feet from his grill/front right quarter panel.

BAM...I went sailing through the air and then tumbled/rolled down the street a ways. My first thought was "man I f*cked my bike up !!" I felt no pain but then saw something sticking out of my jeans...thought it was a piece of wood and tried to wipe it off.

Well it was my femur...compound fracture. I then looked back at it and noticed my foot was turned around backwards and swinging/blowing in the wind !! I said "screw the bike...somebody call 911 !!" They already had.

I ended up with a crushed heel...twisted/fractured ankle and the broken femur.

4 surgeries and 9 months on crutches later I was walking again...with a limp.

I still limp some and it's been 7 years.

I was probably going about 35 mph.

[the chi]

YIKES!!! :panic: Ya'll have had some horrific accidents!!

Mine isnt worth mentioning, as I walked away with no real lasting damage, just a good "weather" shoulder.

[Ducati Diva]

Haven't crashed yet but had my first drop this weekend. Nothing special just did a stupid newb thing at low speed. No damage to the bike but in trying to save it brused the shit out of my inner thighs and calfs. Note to self for future reference handle bar imprints do look good as a tatoo :lol:

[Rsv1000R]

Broke my right collarbone on my yz250E 30 years ago, and my left collarbone and a few ribs in 2000. My left cb never fused, so it's still broken in the middle.

[Dave]

rashed glove and a bruised ego :lmao:

[MissHell]

I crashed in 2006, I honestly don't remember anything other than coming to in the ambulance - so mentally it's never been an issue for me.

I crashed @ 30mph, I was looking over my shoulder to change lanes, the rider in front of me slowed down and I hit them, which caused me to high-side. The other rider didn't go down.

My injuries:
concussion
strained neck (whiplash)
sprained right wrist with soft tissue damage (hand still bothers me some 3yrs later)

Gear (no real damage, other than EMS cut if all off me):
boots
gloves
jeans
leather jacket
full-face helmet (had some serious scratches a cross the shield, glad it wasn't my face)


I am thankful my injuries were minor, my bike damage was only cosmetic and the other rider wasn't hurt.

[Archren]

Mine was in '03.. high-side and landed it by face planting into a rock. Even with a full-face helmet, I needed reconstructive surgery from my injuries:

Broken septum
Broken orbitals (needed bone grafts)
Lost my four front upper incisors
Shattered my upper jaw
Split my hard/soft palate all the way to the back of my throat and all the way through to my sinus cavity
Dislocated my lower jaw and broke it at both joints as well as at my chin
Oh, and a concussion. :rockwoot:

If it weren't for that concussion and the resulting memory loss, I probably wouldn't have been back on two wheels within 30 days of my wreck (even with my jaws still wired shut). :whistle:

[smileyman]

OK I wasn't going to but here goes... Fisrt the speed isn't as important as the distance it takes you to stop...For instance:

I once crashed a stock car into a turn 4 wall at a mere 60 mph. Glancing blow, sprained the ankle I had on the brake pedal, ground to a halt, not so bad.

I also hit a tree with a 89 Camaro at about 40 mph. Sudden and brutal stop, misc cuts and bruises, very sore, not pretty but definetly worse than the 55 mph wreck.

I also lowsided my bike on track at TWS at about 75 mph. I hit nothing and bounced and skidded myself to a halt about 120 ft later with no physical harm. I was a little sore the next day but overall it was kinda fun.

Same track 6 months later I lowside (different corner) at about 75, skipped 30 ft and slammed into an airfence/tire wall/and my bike. This sudden stop resulted in a torn muscle along my femur, bent knee, two broken ribs, and a severly twisted ankle. Bad enough that I did not think it fun. Never the less I remounted later that same afternoon in order to protect my points in another class and...

Highsided at about 45. WTF you ask? I false neutralled and rode thru a corner without holding in the clutch. The tranny engaged the next lower gear and locked the rear tire sending over the hi-side and beating my head and back into the track HARD. This was no fun either...

The worse incident? I rolled an ATV at about 40 mph. Tangling with the ATV I managed to dislocate my neck and permanently twist my wrist. Oh I am sure I could have surgery but the wrist is still an issue nearly 6 years later. The neck injury healed well on its own but always gets out of sorts and I have to have a Chiro put it back right. No broken bones but the pain and recovery time has surpassed all the other injuries combined...

I could discuss my jet ski, Lawn mower, and bicycle accidents but hey you get the point....:zowned:

[jalaan1]

damnnn!

after the last two, my back injury aint sh!t.

[tached1000rr]

#1, 1993, 10 years into being a rider, low sided in gravel at about 30 mph because I dropped a pack of cigarettes. Broken throttle wrist, some how so amp'd up I was able to get the bike going and ride it home before going to the hospital. Time to quit smoking.

#2, Oct 20th, 2000, Head On Collision, 50 mph, car going about 15 mph. 5 major separations of the pelvis, right leg sent through hip socket 4", left foot 4 bones broken, left ankle broken, Elbow detached and left hand sent backwards underneath Triceps, Radial head destroyed, Radius shattered, plate and 4 screws installed, Was in Pelvic Halo for 104 days, have two 9" rods side-to-side in rear of pelvis, 4 permanent screws in the front, 6 months in hospital and 6 more in and out of rehab centers. What did I learn? No riding in the left lane, center only for about a year after I started riding again. Took me another year to go by the accident site with out flinching.

#3 April 15, 2003. Rear ended a car who's driver decided to turn right from the middle lane...(I was in the right lane)....Stayed on the bike as it did a complete barrel roll after impact. Double break of Left Clavicle, Left Elbow re-broken, both wrists compression fractured, 6 left side ribs, right thumb broken from joint-to-joint requiring pins to reconnect, re-broke left ankle, 6 hours in hospital, 9 weeks recovery. Learned to watch for Haitian women as most in South FL are not licensed or insured. Make sure personal insurance is high so when you sue you own insurance co. for payment, its enough.

#4 Memorial Day 2006. I was rear ended while practicing at Moroso Motorsports Park by a fellow rider in my same class. Broken: Right Scapula (top to bottom) left middle finger, 6 ribs on right side, left ankle again. 5 days in trauma center, 9 weeks before going back to work. Learned NOT to talk to the points leader in the class before race about how close I was to catching him for the championship....since he is the one who crashed into me.

Damn I'm pretty persistent but I think that would have been enough for me to take up golfing and ditch the bike.

[101lifts2]

1st crash, about 55mph, looped wheelie: chipped pelvis, and shin, lost a LOT of skin off my legs, back, arms, and hands, hands were the worst as i was sliding on the pavement trying to stop myself, in the ambulance they gave me something for pain...well i was allergic to it, so i'm laying in the hospital bleeding from everywhere, now my head is swelled so bad from the allergic reaction, that they cant get my helmet off....and if you think using a wire brush to get out road debris is an old wives tale, you sir ARE WRONG! and that shit hurts, well that hospital didnt do a good enough job, so i went to another the next day for more wire brushing and cutting off some dead skin with scissors, couldnt dress or feed myself very well for a couple of weeks or more, cause my hands were so bad

2nd crash: car in front of me turned off to the right, so i keep going straight, car decides it wanted to go left instead, cut back in front of me, swerving either way would have hit parked cars on the side of the street, had a girl with me, so instead of chancing t-boning the car and launching her over it, i laid it down(in this fraction of a second seemed like the best plan) passenger was kinda on top of me, and i pushed her off to the side, my body hits underneath the drivers door area as the bike bounces off the back bumper, well any driver that wasn't a complete retard would have stopped then, she didnt , and drove over the top of my left leg, hip, ribs, shoulder, etc, i kept my eyes open and turned my head before the car ran over it too, the dumb bitch said "OMG, i thought i ran over something" i said "you think so, ya stupid bitch" fractured my pelvis, broke about all the ribs on the left side, broke shoulder, collar bone, etc, thank God it was a toyota!

the girl with me just had scuffed knees and elbows,

cops gave me a ticket a MONTH later for following too close, judge threw it out though!

oh, and the bike, well it was somebody elses, had about 300 miles on it, some girls wanted to ride, but he was a new rider and afraid to ride passengers so he wanted me to take them for a ride:idk:

You should learn to ride in the same lane as cars. This happens to me alot (your 2nd crash) and I just let the car come as close to me as it needs. Shit I had this happen in the cayons last week. This Honda stops suddenly on a 2lane road and turns onto the shoulder, which is only about 2 feet. The car behind him swerves to the left to go around while at the same time I was. I was riding about 1/2 foot from this Integra as we both move over into the other lane (we are side by side). It was kinda cool, but it happened so quick that it is common reaction for me now.

On another note Yammer...I bet u have some metal in you, huh?