Worst Accidents?
 

Ok post your worst biking accidents. I'm relatively new and road biking my worst has only been a 0 MPH fallover due to forgetting to clip out. I've had a few mountain bike spill but nothing serious. I know it's a matter of time before I lay hit the pavement hard.

What are some of your serious accidents and how painful was it?

OB

There are going to be many stories of broken bones. I luckily have avoided them. I have taken 2 spills and have hit the pavement at 20mph each time and got back on and rode on with a badly bruised hip and scrapes. You are probably wondering "will I still be clipped in when I go down"? Both times I went down I became unclipped, so it was never an issue. Of course I am a Cornhusker and you are a Buckeye so you may remain clipped in and become seriously injured if you wreck.... :)

My worst biking accident was while I was mountain biking. We usually do this trail one way, but decided to do it the other way this time. At the end there's a very steep and long downhill, where you can easily get up to 20mph. Well at the bottom, there's a nice hump, which I hit. I wasn't ready for it and landed on my front wheel. I did a nice endo before flipping over at a pretty good speed. Knocked the wind out of me for a good 5 minutes.

I haven't had any bad road biking accidents. The only really bad one I remember was slipping on an MUP bridge. The bridge was wet and wooden, so my rear wheel slipped out under me. It wasn't that bad though, I got up and did the last 15 miles of the ride.

Oh right, the trail workers eventually took out that little hump so now it's a lot smoother.

I was decapitated by a city bus.

I've done a couple of same 0 mph layovers. The one time I've tried mountain biking I hit roots forcing the wheel to turn and I fell into a tree.

2 from many years ago:
Freshman year of college: Grabbed a handful of front brake in gravel, flew several feet. Have a scar on my knee as a memento.
2nd grade: I think I fell over on my bike and hit my head on a curb. Whatever happened, I ended up with a concussion and not much of a memory of my life before that. This was before helmets were "required".

Lets not. Nothing productive will come of this thread.

Car attempted a U-turn out of a parking spot...ended up in the emergency room with a concussion, fractured rib and a busted bike.

Police Report sketch:
http://i.imgur.com/8rEWF.jpg

The bike fared worse than me

I've slammed the pavement pretty hard in races, wiped out skidding down the street on a fixie, and crashed on the trails more times than I can count, but I'm currently splinted up with a broken elbow from a fairly low-speed collision with a right-turning car. It's my first broken bone so I guess that counts?

I have broken my eye socket, knocked out teeth, taken chunks out of my shoulder, broken my clavical, broken my scapula, and my back still hurts from the one about a month ago.

Worst: Started fishtailing while accelerating on a crush limestone trail, slammed the brakes a little too hard, right over my handlebars. Separated my shoulder and cracked my helmet in half....thank god for the helmet.

Stupidest: 2 wks ago, rolling up to a stop sign, looked back over my shoulder a little too long, drifted into my wife's back wheel and down I go. Nothing but some road rash on my elbow and a bruised ego....

But I've already made the popcorn...

I have been smashed 3 times by cars. I have been riding since the mid 1980's.

Every time it was my fault. I took big risks and paid for it. I guess I am lucky in that regard, I am more fearful of myself than a motorist.

I have flown into a gorge at Warp Stupid while MTB'ing and fell 20+ feet into a bunch of Manzanita. My Oakley eye protection saved my right eye, I had a deep impact/scratch on the lens right where my eyeball was.

When I was in denmark as a teen, I was riding to school on a bike path... came flying down a hill, sun coming up over the trees and I didn't see some construction in the bike path, so of course, I endo'd into a ditch they were digging in the bike path.

Woke up and some old danish guy was trying to unbuckle my pants, wtf? bent the fork, the frame at the head tube and of course, the wheel looked like a heart. Pretty dramatic but no lasting harm. :D

Here's my worst:

On a training ride prepping for the 24 Hours of Booty charity ride, at 7:30am, two lane road that goes through a residential area, speed limit 35 mph. I'm 50 ft from making a left hand turn -- I look behind me and see a box truck about 500 feet behind me. I signal for a left hand turn, and transition toward the double yellow. I place my hand on the bars to downshift in prep for the turn, then signal a left hand turn again. I commence turning, and hear the sound of an engine at full throttle. I'm now in the oncoming lane of traffic transitioning across the road; I look left and see that the box truck has chosen to cross the double yellow line and accelerate in an attempt to pass me (all despite the fact that I'd signaled my intentions twice, and had transitioned to the left part of the lane). For some odd reason, I knew I was going to live, but also knew it was going to hurt. The Chevy bow-tie hit me directly on my left hip. According to the police report and witnesses, I flew 20 feet in the air, and landed approximately 80 feet past the point of impact, with my bike landing on top of me.

Luckily for me, there was an off-duty officer who was following the box truck because he was "driving erratically and speeding." The driver of the box truck was driving on a revoked license (previous DUI). The off-duty officer called an ambulance and arrested the driver on the spot.

I broke my left hip and was unable to walk for 4 months. Thankfully I was able to recover without surgery, and am happy to report that I climbed Mt. Mitchell (highest peak east of the Mississippi) a year after the accident.

Bonus: the settlement money allowed me to upgrade from my Aluminum Felt to my Trek Madone 5.5 :)

I dunno about worst, but I will most certainly win for dumbest. When I was a kid, about 14, I was riding my dad's Fuji and the front brake pad was rubbing against the tire. I... well... I tried to kick it loose. While riding.

Yeah.

Got my foot stuck in the spokes, endo'd, hit the ground face first (no helmet). Ground my front three teeth down the roots on the asphalt, broke both bones in my left forearm, and fractured my right shoulder blade. Shredded most of the skin off one knee and around one eye, and got a ton of gravel embedded in my face.

It's worth noting that this was one week before I started high school.

I was not a particularly bright child.

Glad to hear you recovered but as for settlement money, I'd have wanted a fleet of Madones (and Cervelos, Pinarellos, Specialized's along with all the trimmings - Zipps, Rzr's etc) I wouldn't trade my ability to ride for any amount of money.

Here's mine from last Thursday
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y18...kAnimation.gif

No broken bones. But I did have a kidney stone break loose. More pain than I could believe!

On August 8th at 9:15 AM during a 60 mile bicycle training ride I was struck head on by a pick-up truck doing 40 mph. I was actually at a stop sign in a turn lane in front of a pedestrian cross walk when I was hit. WTF?

Doctor told me that my hip was dislocated, which fractured my femoral head, fractured my acetabulum, tore my labrum, and separated my left shoulder. They performed an open reduction internal fixation of the hip after 5 1/2 hours. I'm still using crutches, but I don't care as long as I don't end up like Bo Jackson.

I now have to wait two years to see if I develop AVN or post traumatic arthritis, and a total hip replacement is not too far away from my distant future due to DJD. Then I'm told I will never be able to run again. WTF? I plan to live another 40 years, but I diodn't plan for this!

On a more positive note, swimming has been the best psychologically and highly recommended for mental medicine. Three months post op and scheduled to swim 70.3 portion next weekend since I cannot get a refund.

Ordered a new bike and also hope to be riding pain free before Thanksgiving on a trainer. I realize that is a tall order, but I promiss to build slow. Doctor told me he would not ride 20 miles a day. WTF? Don't these doctors know that 20 miles is a nice short ride when you really don't have any time?

Like they say Life can change on a dime, but it's a lot more expensive now.

Yup

Right in the beginning of a Mtb XC race, finishing up the prologue lap and coming up to the steep drop into the trailhead, a newbie behind me wasn't paying attention and took out my rear wheel. That pushed me off the side of the trail and into a bunch of jagged rocks. My front wheel gets caught up and launches me over the bars (I'm going 15-20mph at this point.). The guy that hit me also crashes and lands on top of me. He apologizes bc he knew it was his fault. No biggie... I get up and keep racing... Didn't notice the huge gash on my knee or the chunk of flesh missing from my elbow...not until after the race anyway. Then the pain set in. Miserable recovery period and 5 stitches in my knee

Fun times

Still managed a top-ten somehow... Adrenaline maybe?

Took a jump off a ramp on a bmx bike when I was 25. Was showing my brother in law "how its done." Landed flat on my back, knocked the wind out of me, and did something horrific to both shoulders. They still hurt like hell most of the time, and the doctor says nothings wrong.

You didn't specify road bikes.

This is okay. Some sports are really dangerous. Like bodyboarding.

http://www.kionrightnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=13379423

I used to bodyboard, and body surf in Cali and NZ Great Whte Shark and Hawaii Tiger shark zones. If you get bitten you just have to HTFU.

Correct.

Off a curb into a car was mine.

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