Worst (hilarious) injuries

did anyone ever see that episode of Burkes 999 - probably 1995 or something - where a young boy was cycling and went down a curb, the wheel wasn't properly secured in the front forks and came off, he flew over the handlebars landing in the middle of the road on his front, the frame somersaulted through the air and landed on him....

the front forks pierced his scull at the base near his neck. he was lying there for hours with the bike balancing precariously inside his scull, dropouts nesting next to his cerebellum. Missed all important bits and he was fine, no brain damage, but can you imagine??/

sometimes that flits through my mind when i go up curbs...

Yep, I remember it vividly, every time i tighten my back wheel I now triple check and super tighten the nut just because of that one episode.

My own stupid and hilarious (to my friend who was watching, was pretty unpleasant for me at the time) accident occured one fateful afternoon. Me and my friend were cycling along on our beaters as we didn't have locks at the time and were relying on the 'stash in the bush' method of security, my rear brake cable had snapped a gew days earlier and I had neglected to fix it. We got to the bottom of a pretty steep hill going at a fair old speed and noticed an ambulance with blues and twos on the go pulling into the road ahead of us, Aha! a nice chance to draft a fast moving vehicle that traffic is going to move out of the way for, let's go! Merrily burning it away behind the ambulance and it suddenly stops, I pull my front brake lever....nothing happens...FUCK! I look down and the front v-brake has come undone...I had a second to choose what to do, the ambulance has stopped flush with a parked car on either side, so my only choice is swerve hard as I can to get onto the pavement and hopefully pull off a foot skid...but no, I spot 3 schoolgirls walking along the path! Smallest of the cars is a Mercedes A-class guess I'm gonna have to crash into that (all that thought process took under a second by the way) BLAM!! I smack full speed into the back of the car, spiderweb the entire back window, move the car a good foot forward and bounce 4 foot backwards onto my back unable to breathe. My mate is being really helpful by laughing his arse off on the floor at how 'I looked just like a crash test dummy when I crashed'. End result, a cracked sternum and dodgy breathing problem for 2 weeks meaning I couldn't laugh, obviously my friends doubled their efforts to do just that. Oh yeah the front wheel was bent back on itself which was pretty impressive to me at the time.