Michael Schumacher's Moto Injuries

  

This story is pretty old, it dates back to August, 2009, but I had never heard these details. Schu crashed during testing in Cartegena, Spain in february 2009 while preparing for Superbike competition on a Honda 1000 CBR-Fireblade. The crash was at approximately 140 mph.

"I was driving down start-finish and when breaking into the first corner I hit some bumps which made me fall," Schumacher said on his website. "The checks in the hospital showed nothing and I am fine, therefore I went back home at the evening."

However, his Doctor, Johannes Peil said a few months later in August, "He had a serious injury to the seventh vertebra of the neck, a fracture of the first left rib and a fracture at the base of the skull, roughly the size of a thumbnail but in a place supporting the whole weight of the skull. There was also a hairline fracture on the left side of the skull." He also said that one of the two main arteries to Schumacher's brain was also damaged.

"I am fine," Schu said after his release from hospital on the fateful day. Really? No.

I now understand much better why the summer 2009 replacement drive for Massa was not possible. I suspect that he has now recovered fully and will not be threatened by further complications. And, I think that he is much safer in the cockpit of an F1 car than he is on a bike.

Comments

[sportsman]

Itš first time that I have seen his injuries in such detail.Nasty indeed.
But I have absolutely no worries about his fitness and neck.
There is no way that his doctors,Mercedes GP or the FIA would allow him to race if they were not fully confident that his injuries had comepletely healed and it was quite safe for him to do so.

[KM-TV]

Just look at his eyes in the photo - that's a definate "Oh bugger!" moment!

Very serious injuries indeed. it's a wonder he's managed to recover at all!

[G.Jordan]

Did Michael Shumacher ever break his
legs in a F1 accident?

[flood1]

Sure, he broke his right leg. Do you think that makes a bike safer?