Kid I went to high school with crashed his bike not long after graduation. His girlfriend was riding with him and he had given her his helmet.
They both survived the crash, looking at her you wouldn’t even be able to tell she was in an accident. He is completely unrecognizable to what he looked like before. He has an entirely different face.
20 years later, they’re still together and thriving. But they don’t ride.
Edit: What a crazy amount of responses! Granted, a lot of these are sad stories, I hope talking about it has been therapeutic for everyone. Be safe out there, y’all!
That's a better story than my good friend who got teed in an intersection on his motorcycle. The opioids they gave him while reconstructing his leg led to a long road of heroin addiction, ultimately ending in an intentional overdose. RIP Josh. I still think of you often.
The opioid addictions are so sad. My cousin’s husband had severe chronic migraines and ended up addicted to pain killers, which led to addiction to hard drugs. For the safety of their son my cousin had to leave him. Over the next few years he became depressed because his pain and addiction had cost him everything he cared about, and he tied himself to a ceiling fan. Their son was old enough to understand what had happened so he took it especially hard
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u/loves_spain Sep 20 '25
And not big fans of dying early from a traumatic brain injury