Richard Branson shares photos of his accidents after bike smash

Richard Branson has shared a photograph of his accidents after hitting a pothole and flying off his bike in Virgin Gorda. 

The billionaire Virgin founder stated he ‘crashed arduous’ within the biking accident – however stated fortunately he managed to keep away from breaking any bones. 

He revealed he has suffered a hematoma on his hip and a ‘nasty lower elbow’ – and it is not the primary time he is had a biking accident. 

In 2021 he flew off his bike and crashed onto a tough concrete street in a ‘colossal’ bicycle crash after his brakes failed whereas collaborating in an endurance charity race throughout the British Virgin Islands. And in 2016 he cracked his cheek and tore a number of ligaments whereas driving within the Virgin Strive problem in Leverick Bay.

Daredevil Branson posted a picture of the aftermath of his newest accident on Instagram and wrote: ‘Took fairly a giant tumble whereas biking in Virgin Gorda a short time in the past!

‘I hit a pothole and crashed arduous, leading to one other hematoma on my hip and a nasty lower elbow, however amazingly nothing damaged.

‘We have been biking with Alex Wilson, who fell after me, however fortunately he was okay as nicely.

‘I’m counting myself very fortunate, and grateful for protecting myself energetic and wholesome.

‘After all, the courageous could not reside without end however the cautious don’t reside in any respect!’

More than a thousand followers despatched him messages of help following the social media put up yesterday. 

He was described by his supporters as ‘courageous’ and ‘wonderful’ as some warned him to watch out and handed on get nicely quickly needs. 

And this isn’t the primary biking smash Branson has had. In 2021 he suffered a ‘colossal’ bicycle crash after his brakes failed whereas collaborating in an endurance charity race throughout the British Virgin Islands. 

He flew off his bike and crashed onto the arduous concrete street on the island of Tortola. 

At the time he feared he had damaged his again after colliding with one other rider throughout day two of the Strive BVI occasion – which sees health fanatics full a sequence of gruelling water and land-based challenges over the course of a number of days. 

Following the 2021 incident he needed to be handled for extreme cuts and bruises on his elbow, an ‘terribly large bump’ on his hip and a ‘large’ hematoma on his leg.

In a weblog put up on his Virgin web site, the father-of-three had stated there was ‘no query’ that sporting a helmet saved his life.

The entrepreneur had additionally shared images from moments after the crash which confirmed him laying on his again subsequent to fellow rider Felix Stellmaszek. 

In one other shot the tycoon was seen smiling along with his thumb up whereas holding an ice pack, whereas pictured stepping into the van which took him to the Virgin Gorda hospital.

Meanwhile different snaps confirmed an enormous, bloodied lump on his left hip and a closely bruised and scratched arm by way of his torn biking shirt. 

And in 2016,  he cracked his cheek and tore a number of ligaments whereas driving within the Virgin Strive problem in Leverick Bay.

He stated on the time: ‘I used to be heading down a hill in direction of Leverick Bay when it all of a sudden acquired actually darkish and I managed to hit a ‘sleeping policeman’ hump within the street head on.

‘The subsequent factor I knew, I used to be being hurled over the handlebars and my life was actually flashing earlier than my eyes. I actually thought I used to be going to die.

‘I went flying head-first in direction of the concrete street, however happily my shoulder and cheek took the brunt of the impression, and I used to be sporting a helmet that saved my life.’

Sir Richard added that sporting a helmet saved his life, and his bicycle went flying off the cliff’. 

He continued: ‘I actually could not consider I used to be alive, not to mention not paralysed.’

In a weblog put up in 2016 Sir Richard stated had skilled numerous accidents and ‘many brushes with loss of life’ over time. 

In February that 12 months he been bitten by stingrays whereas swimming with dozens of the ‘sharks’ within the Cayman Islands.  

During the identical journey he additionally smashed his head right into a glass door whereas out procuring – and he had knocked tooth out twice whereas enjoying tennis over the earlier 12 months.

In 1985, his speedboat famously capsized in excessive seas about 140 miles from the Isles of Sicily as he tried to set a document for the fastest-ever Atlantic crossing. 

In reality the tycoon has had so many close to loss of life experiences that he listed all of them in his second autobiography. 

In Finding My Virginity, Sir Richard listed all of his skirmishes with loss of life in an appendix entitled: 75 shut shaves.

They embody hitting his head whereas bungee leaping at Victoria Falls in 2004 and narrowly lacking stepping on a reside observe with 25,000 volts charged above, whereas inspecting Virgin’s new tilting trains in England in 2001. 

In 1976 he flew a microlight plane ‘by mistake’ when it unintentionally took off as he sat in it – just for his teacher to die in an accident the following day.

And in 1980, he stubbed his toe whereas strolling round his personal Necker Island and all of a sudden fell down a gaping gorge earlier than being pulled up by a pal and saved from the jagged rocks beneath.