[Closed] Horrific Crash

Crikey. Ouch. GWS.

Jesus. Stuff of nightmares. It's this sort of thing that makes me question riding a road bike. I've never crashed mine, and hope and pray I never do.

Get well soon.

Wouldn't have happened if you had discs, obvs.

Yikes! Hope your recovery is smooth and quick!

Also broke a vertebrae (vertebra?) this year, wasn't much fun. Still, there's some minor fun to be had smiling at people when they tell you how awful their trifling knee wounds/wrist fractures etc are before mentioning your BROKEN NECK.

I’ve left you a message on FB too, but here are some extra wishes that you recover fast! Will you be transferred to a hospital nearer home?

Yikes! All the best man. Hope you knit up well.

Ooofff, nasty...

Hope you recover soon & are back pedalling just as quickly..

Ouch! Hope the recovery goes well

Healing Vibes, get well soon.

Mucking Fuppet!

bad luck ol' bean get well soon!

Hope the recovery goes well…was this today?

Oh, well played sir!

Healing vibes OP.

Oof and double oof! Sorry to hear about this. Healing feelings...

Is your bike alright?

Crikey James, you don't do things by half. All the best and wish you a speedy full recovery. In future remember brakes are a better stopping aide than heads. Jk.

Is your bike alright?

Has to be said.... It's a sad reflection on this forum that it has taken 3 pages before someone asked this crucial question. 😞 😉

Sorry to hear that mate. Sat here with some fairly gnarly roadrash from high speed road bike off. There but for the grace of god and that. Best wishes for a speedy recovery

& you didn't hurt your head even though you were wearing a lid? Unbelievable cos helmets can cause all kinds of damage!

You were lucky! 😉

I was dropping into Hebden Bridge yesterday, and the air ambulance was looking for a place to land near one of the steepest road decents around, not your good self was it ? Get well soon.

Shit man. Get well soon.

Get well soon, sounds impressive!

more importantly, how's the bike? Seriously

Shit the bed.  Just discovered this via the Gnusmobile thread.  Speedy recovery, sir.

Hope you are mended fast, take care!

Get well soon! LGI is awesome. If you need supplies of anything just post on here, between us Leeds lot we will get it to you (unless its coke and hookers, or a bike with discs). 🙂

Which vertebrae? I had the off-road version - burst punctured T5, 6 & 7.

Spent a week on a tilt bed waiting for the operation with my new friends Codeine, Paracetamol, Ibuprofen and Tramadol visiting four times a day...

Enjoy the opioids.  😵

Ouch - hope you recover quickly and are back out there soon

@Mr Whppit, no Morphine ?

Me, shed loads of morphine (oramorph as needed and long acting tablets, injections on the road), diazapam, ibuprofen, paracetamol, anti blood clot injections, lactulose and anything.

I was in hospital 6 1/2 weeks, including Christmas and New Year.  Had to Skype the kids Christmas morning for pressie opening- not good.

How you doing Saxonrider - - prognosis - operation or conservative (PS op for conservative if you can)

Ouch - were you riding solo?  Heal fast, but if the bike's fubar that means it's time to start browsing for a replacement.

Yeah keep us updated if you can SR, though we understand you might have other priorities ATM.

🙂

Yep. No morphine. Plus, being released too early and having to go back & spend another week in A&E.

Word of warning to Saxon... if it’s not too late... I was offered either a bespoke external brace to wear to stabilise my spine or an internal metal brace.

Downsides: the external brace would work, but I’d become a hunchback. The internal brace would work better, but there’d be a ‘small risk’ of nerve damage from the operation.

Threw the dice and took the latter option. Guess what - there was some small damage from the operation, the upshot being that I can’t piss without a prosthetic.

Ended up with a silicone tube in place to extract urine after having a hole drilled through me to enable it.

Upside - plug in a bag overnight and I don’t have to get up to go to the toilet, I sleep through. 😀

Downside - I have to go to the hospital every two months for a replacement, so I’m semi-tied to my homebase which makes touring arrangements a bit of a hassle for the management.

You pays your money and takes your choice. Good luck.

He's been a bit quiet on social media, hope it's going ok...

Shit the bed

Alternatively, don't.  Morphine makes you constiapted so it can build up until the nurses give you some kind of picolax suppository which you really don't want!  My advice is to eat bran flakes for breakfast, take the oral laxatives offered on the drugs round and keep yourself regular 🙂

That’s good advice. The Tramadol had the same effect. After seven days without a crap, even the oral anti-constipation AND the suppositories weren’t completely effective.

Eventually, I was privileged to have a small insight into the arduous pain that women have to go through with childbirth...   😵

Bloody road cyclists, going too fast as usual!  Seriously, hope you heal quickly, sounds a bit sore.

Ouch. Heal fast!

I think I saw your helicopter coming in to LGI ?

What time of day was it ?

Healiong Vibes mate. Sounds horrific.

Commiserations. I'm 7 months post fractured T12-L1.

Not much advice I can give except stay strong. I'm still finding it tough both physically and mentally. Pretty much decided to jack in riding as being that close to being wheelchair bound really hit me.

I'd suggest staying away from phones, laptops and tv for a bit for as much as possible if you're concussed. I didn't and it was only after a month or so when the fog started to clear that I realised that stimulus really wasn't helping.

Get a pack of laxative suppository handy when you get home. I got bunged up some weeks later after thinking it was all back to normal and I swear the pain was worse than anything I felt immediately after the accident. If you can't reach to poke that sucker up there find a loved one to help!

Good luck and hope you're as comfortable as you can be.

Eat jelly babies; the jelly will keep you regular.

Oooof.

Good luck and healing vibes fella.

In Poland ATM, otherwise I'd come round and steal yer shoes.

Love to you all,

Pete & Sue.

@wait4me.

I broke T12 and L1 as well - 13 mph into a car that turned right across my path. The road bike was fine, slight scratch on the carbon forks.  Took me 7 months to get back to work - still in pain 3 years later and still hissing about with finding a good pain med.

I was glad to get out of hospital so I could have a good dump on a toilet - I'd been bed bound.  All systems returned to working OK once I was able to potter about.  It's very hard mentally.  I've packed in road riding - too many crazy idiots out to kill you who don't give a fark.  I may pay a visit to the idiot that smashed me up once my claim is finalised - a few words as to how this has affected me because of his poor driving, might just make the fool look where he is pointing a deadly piece of machinery.

@Mr Whoppin - that's a nightmare - I opted for no metalwork. Still in considerable pain (missing half my L1 as it just crumbled away) but I've no nerve issues - just constant pain and 10% kyphosis which my muscles/age is managing to keep in balance (with pain).  I will have pain issues the rest of my life.

The surgeon did warn me that things could go wrong (I've had a minor 'local' (the snip) go very very wrong) and he mentioned I had already experienced that.  I said leave me be, unless it was absolutely necessary as I had use of my lower body - surgery could have left me in a wheelchair.  It was bloody close as a large chunk of my L1 had broken off - that eventually knitted, but the rest of my L1 crumbled - I've lost half the height of the L1 at the front and it's a cheese wedge shape - my vertebrae are all a bit wonky round this area with some bigger and smaller gaps between the discs.

Upside is I can still ride, walk etc. Could have been much worse.  Physically you heal quicker than mentally. I've been far more depressed than I realised and it's taken nearly 3 years to realise and seek help.  My missus has found a charity that offer councelling - not been offered anything privately via the 'rehabilitation code, nor anything via the NHS as they are cash strapped. Starting that this week to hopefully get my head fixed.

Oh man, really sorry to about that, it looks and sounds horrible.

I hope you heal fast and well.

He’s posted on Facebook that he’s having surgery later today.

Hope all goes well.

Oofft! Looks a sair one mate, like others have said hope your recovery is quick

Tough break saxonrider

Seriously hope you heal up well, inpressive list of injuries though !

Any update on SR?

how is he?

Ouch. Bet that tickled a bit mate. All the best.

Not heard anything from him.  Hope he's ok.

There’s a message on Facebook that the surgery has gone well today 😊

Sending healing vibes. Hope the recovery goes well.

Here’s the official STW update:

The original crash was Tuesday on one of the steepest descents into a Hebden, so if you saw the chopper anywhere after 2:00 pm, that will have been me.

I ended up breaking C1, C2 C7, and T5, and while T5 is what originally concerned them, it was C5 they operated on. This is is because they determined that if it so much as moved the tiniest bit, it was going to paralyse me.

Yesterday’s surgery then, was to ‘cage’ the vertebrae, then fuse it with the one above and below. Which they managed successfully.

They now need to monitor T5 and decide if anything active needs to be done with it. The ribs and collapsed lung they are letting heal in their own.

@Bearnecessities has been up, and is a fantastic guy.

I have genuinely appreciated all the messages of support. Any questions?

Just hope you’re feeling okay SR. Family all good? I take it you’ll now do the sensible thing and stick to mountain bikes?

Sounds tough James. Heal quickly.

if it helps any; an old fella in our club recently had similar crash (into back of parked van) with similar damage and an added injury to your list of a broken neck too. He was up and walking within 6 weeks ... things will improve quickly🤞

Stay off the comfort eating - otherwise your goal of racing and beating me gonna get even more difficult for you😎

God bless and speedy recovery James.

Great to hear that it went well SR, healing vibes sent via the intethernet thingy.

I'm glad the surgery has gone well and you're on the mend.

How long until you're home?

Thanks for the update. It all sounds very scary but thought you might like to hear that one of my friends broke his back and his neck (2 separate road cycling accidents) and both times made a full recovery. In fact he won a club time trial while his neck was still in a brace and had to ride sitting bolt upright 😄

If you’re going to be in Leeds for ages (or will they transfer you?) and you’d like visitors let us know.

Sounds horrific. Glad the surgery went well and hope the healing process is swift. 👊

No updates on the bike..that poor bike.. all alone, in a potentially non rideable condition.

Healing vibes for you and the bike

Again, best wishes mate and hope they are keeping you well dosed up in Happy Land to help with the pain!

Heal well mate and all the best.

All good then ? Speedy recovery and all that, don’t stop riding bikes they’re ace and it wasn’t it’s fault unless you weren’t on some disc clad machine obvz 🤪

I have genuinely appreciated all the messages of support. Any questions?

Yeah, what’s hospital food like these days 🤣

@bearnecessities brought me in a bunch of tastiest, middle-class bananas ever produced in nature, the food question is pretty much a moot one.

Any questions?

Yeah.

How do they enforce the two visitors to a bed policy with a man who has eight kids?

Heal soon SR.

Soup for One then..

Glad to hear from you.....

Any questions?

Where did it happen? We'll put up a plaque, light a few candles......🙂

I'm guessing Mytholm Steeps or Horsehold....

Eat jelly babies; the jelly will keep you regular.

Especially if they're the sucrolose sweetened ones.

Get well soon and I hope it doesn't smart too much.

As previously pointed out there's been no mention of the state of the poor bike. Is it still in a ditch outside Hebden?

It was indeed Mytholm Steeps. Alongside Rawtenstall Bank. Unbelievable!

As for the bike, some kind soul took it with him to drop at my brother’s. I actually don’t know what state it’s in!

Thanks bikebuoy, always wondered where Modjo stole that hook from.

Get well soon, OP.

Hope you can still read books with that neck brace.

As of now, reading has just become possible. The physios has me get up and walk the single step to my chair. Feels good.

ouch...

healling vibes man

It was indeed Mytholm Steeps. Alongside Rawtenstall Bank. Unbelievable!

Ooof. All the best. Once got quite out of control towing a trailer with a full barrel of beer on it. But nothing bad happened.

Very best wishes.

Just catching up with this thread, Best wishes to you SR, hope you heal fast. looks a bad 'un.

best wishes from the south of France .

Proper crash !

Thoughts and prayers for the bike

Is that a 27.5" neck brace? I hear they bring...

Coming down a steep hairpin today and I thought of you - can only echo what others have said; mend soon.

That'll keep you out of the Ukraine for a while.

Get well soon!

Get well soon mate! Glad the surgery went well 👍

Jeez! Sounds nasty. Wishing you a speedy recovery

Sounds very nasty, heal well. Lots of netflicks (latest guilty pleasure is Ice Road Truckers, how can towing be such a drama).