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| Virgin billionaire Richard Branson survives bike crash in Brit. Virgin Islands. |
| 2016-08-27 |
| [SUN] "I went cycling on Virgin Gorda with Holly and Sam as part of my training for the Virgin Strive Challenge. "I was heading down a hill towards Leverick Bay when it suddenly got really dark and I managed to hit a ’sleeping policeman’ hump in the road head on. "The next thing I knew, I was being hurled over the handlebars and my life was literally flashing before my eyes." The accident-prone Virgin boss - who escaped a run in with a deadly stingray just a few months ago ‐ said he genuinely thought he'd finally run out of lives. "I really thought I was going to die. I went flying head-first towards the concrete road, but fortunately my shoulder and cheek took the brunt of the impact, and I was wearing a helmet that saved my life ," he said. "My bike went flying off the cliff and disappeared. We've since recovered the crumpled bicycle, completely destroyed. My cheek has been badly damaged and my knee, chin, shoulder and body severely cut. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 It's always funny until someone gets hurt . . . . . then it's hilarious!!! |
| Posted by: Canuckistan sniper 2016-08-27 15:49 |
| #3 "I really thought I was going to die." Just a bit over the top, isn't it? If you're riding on unfamiliar roads and it 'suddenly got really dark', do what intelligent and experienced cyclists would tell you to do - slow the fuck down, idiot. |
| Posted by: Raj 2016-08-27 14:22 |
| #2 It's not really fun if you can't get hurt. So true. You want to mitigate the risk as much as possible. You don't want to get killed. But, yes, there has to be some risk or else you might as well sit indoors and play video games. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2016-08-27 12:56 |
| #1 It's not really fun if you can't get hurt. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2016-08-27 12:45 |