I just saw this extraordinary video on Reddit where a motorcyclist is hit squarely by a car, cartwheels over the vehicle, and then walks away. The man must be made of rubber.
He is particularly lucky because, if you look closely, he does not appear to be wearing a helmet.
Wrong title as the motorcyclist hit the car. My first thought was what the heck was he doing? I see no brake being applied as he plows into the side. It is an entirely different situation when a cager hits a motorcyclist and more often then not fatal. Hate to see any accidents involving motorcyclist but this one is on him, as well as the driver of the car. Wake up people. His behavior also makes me wonder if bike was even his? imho
Just hope he doesn’t end up like Natasha Richardson or LeRoi Moore. Those head injuries really get complicated and can start a snowball effect downhill.
slohrss99 – maybe he will recover like Hillary Clinton.
It’s clear from the video tjat he is stunned, limping and most likely in shock. Those with concussions are able to walk. It is in the next days after injuring oneself that the pain becomes very evident.
Perhaps the third edition of the book by neurologist, Robert Scaer M.D., “The Body Bears the Burden,” would wisely be as though required reading for anyone who comments in some degree of ignorance regarding traumatic injuries.
I happened to have worked for a time in the Surgical Research Department of the Hektoen Institute for Medical Research, in Chicago. That department used the Cook County Hospital Trauma Unit for its clinical work.
People, and other mammals, may seem to do peculiar things when is traumatic shock. People seemingly not in traumatic shock and people who have never experienced devastating traumatic shock may have a tendency to really mess up on attributions for the conduct of people who are in states of traumatic shock.
As for me, and traumatic shock? Been there. Done that. Lived experiences.
My childhood experiences of socially-imposed traumatic shock have strongly motivated my research interest and research work efforts, directed toward making scientifically useful sense of the sociology of sustained entrapment within forms of traumatic-shock based neurological and moral injury.
Some years ago, a story of the Zoroastrian religious tradition of olden times came to my attention. In that story, it was deemed necessary and proper to trip a blind person whenever a blind person was seen walking about. Why so? Because it was deemed sinful to show kindness or compassion to a blind person, because kindness or compassion challenged God’s rightful judgement of the blind person, said rightful judgement being the blind person’s blindness and all the difficulties the person’s blindness could bring into the blind person’s life.
A person gets a headache. That is, in that Zoroastrian religious tradition, a righteous punishment from God, and anything that does nor make the headache worse is defiance of God’s rightfully wrathful punishment…
It is so easy to find the foibles in the belief system of someone else.
It is so not-easy to find the foibles in the belief system of oneself?
And, I stand corrected, Jane. There is a limp after taking a few steps. Looks like hip and/or knee injury.
Jane, I should not have been so cavalier. The defense attorney in a personal injury case like this will point out no pain behaviors. The bicyclist isn’t limping, not hunched over in pain, not rubbing any part of his body. That indicates no major physical injuries, but as I said earlier, does not preclude injuries. The circumstances of your injuries being discovered the next day are quite common and legit. So, if this guy is making physical injury claims his attorney will need to deal w/ the spin, if you will, of the auto driver’s attorney. However, if the bicyclist is making a head injury claim, the video will be very helpful to the plaintiff’s attorney because he clearly looks to be “out on his feet.” I played a couple plays in a high school football game that I don’t remember, I was out on my feet. I had a severe concussion and blow out fracture of my orbital bone. I’m not taking a stand here, just giving my analysis.
Old medical joke: What do you call a motorcyclist without a helmut?
Organ donor.
Yup, he is stunned, limping and doesn’t know where he is going. Thank god that one man ran after him and hopefully will make him lay down until an ambulance arrives. No need to spin this video at all. The body can do many things in a crisis to survive. I was hit like that by a car as a child, I had no broken bones but the next day at the hospital I could barely move anything I was so stiff. I had a concussion, and ligament damage on my femur leaving me barely able to walk and on crutches for three months.
KarenS, The case settled. This woman felt HORRIBLE that he hit the bicyclist. The bicyclist SCREAMED @ her. The cop who responded nearly arrested him for disorderly conduct. He had soft tissue injuries that he tried to play up but didn’t have good medical experts to back it up. Our client[the old woman] really didn’t want to have to testify. The deposition was very traumatic for her although she did well. I don’t know what the bicyclist got, never asked my client. My educated guess would be less than 30k. He was asking for 250k IIRC.
Nick – what happened to the lady driver?
What is up with bicyclists who encroach on the road? I hate when they cluster in a pack taking up the road. Scares the heck out of me that they’re going to get killed.
Ron:
You know the accident is bad when you hear, “He’s alive!” as an exclamation of surprise! So glad your brother walked away from that one.
Ouch ouch ouch! It looks like it rang his bell, because he seems lost after he got to his feet. I hope he’s OK.
I’ve seen enough head injuries with horses and motorcycles that I’m a safety girl. I just had a horse go down under me a few months ago on hard ground. My head was the only body part that didn’t hurt, because I was wearing a helmet.
Wear a helmet! There is nothing like the regret when someone dies or suffers a traumatic brain injury that a simple helmet would have prevented.
Paul, Many injuries truly do not manifest themselves for a day or 2. However, I’ve worked cases where the “injury” didn’t manifest itself for weeks or months. The injury became apparent when the plaintiff saw an ambulance chaser ad on TV.
I worked many auto bicycle accidents here in Madison, which is like China w/ so many bicycles. We have a certain minority of bicyclists who are “progressive” jihadists, trying to take over the roads from autos. Most of the cases I worked were just run of the mill accidents, w/ one or both party having their heads up their butts. However, one was a bicycle jihadist. He thought a driver was being aggressive and I believe caused the accident and then sued. The driver was a sweet old lady who didn’t have an aggressive bone in her body.
I was in a motorcycle accident, got back on the bike and rode to the emergency room to be treated. Next morning I could not move. I do hope he is doing well.
Same thing happened to my brother once when he had the presence of mind to catapult himself off his bike and over the hood of a car. He didn’t land on his feet, but after a brief moment of stillness and hearing someone say “he’s alive!”, he did get up and walk away.
The motorcyclist was quite the acrobat but appeared to be in shock after the collision and needed to visit the nearest triage center for an examination.
He does look pretty fubar, though, because it seems he has no idea where his mototcycle is and is wandering aimlessly around. Poor sod is clearly hurt.
His personal injury attorney will need to spin this video.