Another incident.
Again I was about 11 or 12 and cycling at night (moral: stay off cycles at night), this time to a St Johns Ambulance meeting as I had joined as a cadet nurse. All I remember about the incident was that I was at a T-Junction and turning right from one road into another.
The only thing in my recollection about the incident is that there was a parked car in the junction of the road I was turning into and I had pulled out to pass it.
The next thing I recall is waking up in the ambulance as my mother was getting into it at my house. I spent the next couple of weeks in hospital with a broken collarbone.
Obviously there was undiagnosed brain damage as eventually I grew up to be an IT Contractor.
One last minor incident. I was cycling to school
(you would think I would have learnt to stay away from bikes wouldn't you? - but apart from buses they were my only means of getting anywhere because my family didn't have a car and in those days there was no "school-run" of parents taking their kids to school in the car )
and, because I had to give a mini-lecture that day on Archery, I was carrying my bow. This bow was a solid piece of wood (no Hi-tech laminates in those days - at least not available to kids my age) about 5 ft long. Well I suppose you can guess the rest, I caught the bow in the spokes of my bike and it ended up with me on the ground and a broken bow . No injuries and the bike wheel suffered no trauma. Luckily I wasn't on a public road but a lane which went behind some houses (a place where kids couldn't go these days even on bikes where they can get away easily).
Anyway - end of any life-threatening incidents (thank goodness, I hear you say )
Again I was about 11 or 12 and cycling at night (moral: stay off cycles at night), this time to a St Johns Ambulance meeting as I had joined as a cadet nurse. All I remember about the incident was that I was at a T-Junction and turning right from one road into another.
The only thing in my recollection about the incident is that there was a parked car in the junction of the road I was turning into and I had pulled out to pass it.
The next thing I recall is waking up in the ambulance as my mother was getting into it at my house. I spent the next couple of weeks in hospital with a broken collarbone.
Obviously there was undiagnosed brain damage as eventually I grew up to be an IT Contractor.
One last minor incident. I was cycling to school
(you would think I would have learnt to stay away from bikes wouldn't you? - but apart from buses they were my only means of getting anywhere because my family didn't have a car and in those days there was no "school-run" of parents taking their kids to school in the car )
and, because I had to give a mini-lecture that day on Archery, I was carrying my bow. This bow was a solid piece of wood (no Hi-tech laminates in those days - at least not available to kids my age) about 5 ft long. Well I suppose you can guess the rest, I caught the bow in the spokes of my bike and it ended up with me on the ground and a broken bow . No injuries and the bike wheel suffered no trauma. Luckily I wasn't on a public road but a lane which went behind some houses (a place where kids couldn't go these days even on bikes where they can get away easily).
Anyway - end of any life-threatening incidents (thank goodness, I hear you say )
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