What is the worst fall you've taken?

[Brainonska511]

Never have had anything too bad. Recently when I went snowboarding for the first time, my first time down the bunny slope, I did a somersault. Later on, on the easiest of the real slopes, my board flipped around so I was facing up the hill and I fell backwards and smacked my head on the ground.

 

[NoShangriLa]

Not too dramatic. I fall 12' off a fig tree and landed on a bamboo bush, and one of the broken bamboo stalk pierce my left armpit to the bone. I received 6 painfully stitches with no anesthetic by a 2nd year student because there weren't any doctor available during the fall of Saigon.

 

[Ronstang]

I was doing about 130 mph on one of my motorcycles racing out in the country at night (really bad idea). I was leaned way over to apex a turn and watching the white line. It straightened so I quickly pulled the bike back upright only to have the road make a very sharp curve once more in the same direction. I knew I could not get the bike back down so I grabbed brake and stood up to ride it into the field and hope for the best. In the split second everything happened I think I got the bike down to about a 100mph before leaving the road. What I though was 6" grass was really about 4' 6" grass as there was a abrupt and deep ditch on the side of the road. Needless to say the bike only got about six feet off the road before it accordioned into the opposite bank of the ditch. Luckily I was standing on the pegs and got catapulted off the bike and into the air. I flew about 100 feet in the air and somehow landed upside down and backwards on a corn berm in the fresh dirt. I matched the contour of the berm perfectly. I was wearing jeans, a leather jacket, and a helmet. The only damage was 3 light scratches on the leather jacket which came out with shoe polish. I walked away. Got on the back of my friend's bike (who was behind me and witnessed it all) and rode home.

 

[skyking]

Originally posted by: Ronstang
I was doing about 130 mph on one of my motorcycles racing out in the country at night (really bad idea). I was leaned way over to apex a turn and watching the white line. It straightened so I quickly pulled the bike back upright only to have the road make a very sharp curve once more in the same direction. I knew I could not get the bike back down so I grabbed brake and stood up to ride it into the field and hope for the best. In the split second everything happened I think I got the bike down to about a 100mph before leaving the road. What I though was 6" grass was really about 4' 6" grass as there was a abrupt and deep ditch on the side of the road. Needless to say the bike only got about six feet off the road before it accordioned into the opposite bank of the ditch. Luckily I was standing on the pegs and got catapulted off the bike and into the air. I flew about 100 feet in the air and somehow landed upside down and backwards on a corn berm in the fresh dirt. I matched the contour of the berm perfectly. I was wearing jeans, a leather jacket, and a helmet. The only damage was 3 light scratches on the leather jacket which came out with shoe polish. I walked away. Got on the back of my friend's bike (who was behind me and witnessed it all) and rode home.

Wow. I had forgotten about my bike crash but it lines up rather closely with yours. Much slower, maybe 60 on a big enduro, at night. I took a corner way too fast, and when I tried to slide it I hooked into the fresh chipseal and high-sided.
I got straight just as I left the road. Bike hit far ditchbank and bounced back to the road with toasted forks. I cartwheeled into the dark, into a stubble cornfield. I thought I had stopped, but I was in the air. Bounce, think it's over, wrong
I finally stopped and panicked. I could not see or breathe, I had scooped my helmet full of soil. I broke the chinstrap to get it off.
I was warmly dressed and it probably saved my arse. I has sprains and the like, and a ring bruise all the way round my collar from the full-face helmet.

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: meltdown75
age 15, doing 80km on my dirtbike. hit a fresh patch of gravel, started to slide, panicked, hit front breaks.

went over the handlebars. open-faced helmet, no gloves. gravel road.

Mine was very close to that. Minibike at WOT on the street, blew a tire, locked up the wheels and slid on my left leg. Stupidly hung on to the bike.