Biker Dies Three Times, Wants to Get Back on the Saddle

They say there are two kinds of motorcyclists: those who have crashed and those who will. Few of those who have find themselves willing to get back on the saddle, especially when it comes to the gravity of the accident. This, however, is not the case with Gary Brennan, a 52-year-old grandfather, who is currently in a wheelchair but vows to get back on a motorcycle once his injuries have fully healed.

Brennan had a head-on collision with a car while riding his 1,100cc Ducati Hypermotard while leaving from a Leeds bikers’ meeting point one year ago. He was pronounced dead at the scene, but the paramedics managed to resuscitate him and took him to the hospital, where his heart stopped twice more.

The crash left him with extensive injuries included bleeding on the brain, a spine fractured in three places, a collapsed lung, two broken shoulder blades and fractured ribs. In fact, according to surgeons, the businessman had more injuries than they had ever seen in a living person. He was even put into an artificial coma for 6-weeks to recover, Visordown reports.

No less than 38 operations have been sustained by Brennan since then. He has now settled on a Can Am Spyder trike he plans to buy and use until he can get back on board a new two-wheeled Ducati.

“It’s hard going some days. But I am so incredibly lucky. Without the wonderful air ambulance crew, Kate and Daz who got me alive to hospital and Prof ‘G’ and the other amazing doctors and nurses I would have been long gone,” Brennan said.