Biker fails to notice loss of leg

[pmcq]

Unbelievable!

http://www.theregister.com/2007/08/14/b ... slays_leg/

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A Japanese motorcyclist failed to notice his right leg had been severed below the knee in a collision with a motorway central reservation, and he travelled a further 2km before spotting he'd left something behind at the scene, the Guardian reports.

Company worker Kazuo Osada, 54, was on a jaunt with 10 other bikers yesterday when he failed to negotiate a bend. However, he was "unaware his right leg had been severed below the knee apparently because his attention was focused on the strong pain he felt from the crash", according to police.

He clocked his loss when he subsequently arrived at a junction, and a fellow biker obligingly popped back to pick up the missing limb. Mainichi reports he was whisked to hospital, but whether surgeons were able to reattach the leg remains unclear. ®

[alan]

I heard about this the other day but the story was slightly different i was told it was someone over hear and he overtook a car with an HGV oncoming as he clipped the hgv it severed his leg then carried on riding for a short while then fell over when coming to put his leg down at the junction. still an amazing story though!!!!!

[cupasoop]

Sounds like borrocks to me.

[clayderman]

I heard about this the other day but the story was slightly different i was told it was someone over hear and he overtook a car with an HGV oncoming as he clipped the hgv it severed his leg then carried on riding for a short while then fell over when coming to put his leg down at the junction. still an amazing story though!!!!!

I was given that exact story by a Policeman that attended my college induction when I started on YTS 20yrs ago!!! I didn't believe it then.

[Kitch]

Well, it's being reported by Reuters, so I'd say its legit.

[Pete.L]

Sounds like borrocks to me.

No It was definitely a leg

[lee67]

the one over here was true alan, i know the bloke involved...his m8's still come to cafe, one on a bandit 12 the other on a cb1300'....the bloke involved gave up biking, but yep he got swiped by an hgv mid bend, just felt a tap to his leg and carried on, untill he came to a junction...bike stopped he went to put his leg down..and bingo he fell over, his leg had been ripped off by the wagon.... im sure things like this have happened loads around the world..

[alan]

I thought it was you Lee who told me. Are you at at Squires tonight??

[VTRbob]

don't these use the rear brake then,just fall over at juctions im at cafe tonite alan if its raining were going in car

[lee67]

yes alan and bob..if wet in car vroom vroom

[VTRgirl]

Makes medical sense. The body can simply decide not to feel pain if there's too much. Overload = short circuit for the pain receptors, basically.

Happened to me when I broke my arm. Had no idea it'd happened until I saw it.