Well
Saw the aftermath of a horrendous accident, a bloke had shunted pretty massively into the barrier on the motorway, and you could see him slumped motionless in the seat with blood all over the place, streaming out of his nose, everywhere.

Someone at school cut the end of their finger clean off just below the top knuckle, on the bandsaw (before the health and safety lot stopped all that for students) bone and tendons and gooeyness everywhere.

My Dad witnessed a bloke die after a motorbike accident. He was in his room, and heard a loud bang, and sparks flew from the telegraph pole. He went to have a look, and the bloke had crashed his bike into the pole and gone straight through, snapping it clean off at the base so it was hanging by its wires. The bloke lay there with a snapped limbs, just wheezing and gargling blood, his lungs obviously filling, there was nothing they could do so he died very quickly.

Also a friend of his, when they were at school, said he'd seen a motorbike crash too on the way in on the bus. There was what the kid thought was a can of red paint lying in the road, until he realised it was actually a poor bloke's head, decapitated and still in the crash helmet.

I'm kind of thinking myself lucky, but one day I won't be so.
( mr_wicksy is.... old., Fri 22 Jun 2007, 20:04, Reply)