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  • That helmet didn't save your life, God wants you alive. You have something to accomplish still. My guess is that your work will lead to saving other peoples' lives, and God wants you to achieve that. It is absolutely nothing short of a miracle that you are still alive, not to mention still able to move and walk. God himself intervened to save you.

  • @CubexDE

    Why do you have to ruin and befoul a perfectly good video with such abominations as religion?

  • @ArsonistInUrFirewall Why do you have to ruin and befoul a perfectly good comment with such abominations as your hate for God?

    Also, I'm not religious. There's a difference between religion and faith, and if you don't know what it is, stop hating until you figure it out. Then you can start hating again. (Haters gonna hate.)

  • @CubexDE

    I understand, you have FAITH in your RELIGION.

  • @ArsonistInUrFirewall Nope, you still don't get it. But, like I said:

    Haters gonna hate.

  • @CubexDE

    derpers gonna derp?

  • @CubexDE Funny he didn't, you know, prevent the crash?

  • Thank science you are alive and walking. It took me almost a month of looking at the link for this video before I finally watched it. It was very hard for me to watch now that I did as well. I am just so glad you are OK.

    As much as I love riding my bike, I never ride or walk along the street because I know this can happen. Lights, helmet or not, all it takes is one driver not paying attention for the slightest fraction of a second.

  • you have to be a sadistic fucking asshole to rate down a dude breaking his spine.

  • Where did Flashing red rear lights come from? It may make the battery last longer and get higher efficiency from the LED but it is Confusing to other drivers and imparts less or jumbled information regarding your position. Motor Vehicles subject to Road Traffic Acts would be forced off the road by law on the grounds of Intermittent Lighting!. Cyclists are stupid if they think they work properly. Donal was very lucky that this and him were not held to be at fault for his accident. A Motorcyclist.

  • Great to see you survived the ordeal.

  • She should of been locked up, she knew she hit someone and still drove off. She got off very lightly.

  • OH THE IRONY 

  • Damn what's with all the sexist comments

  • hahaha notice at the end it says "SHE was disqualified from driving" because women can't drive xD

    five bucks says she's a blond.

    but seriously that fucking whore should of been charged for attempted murder instead of that slap on the wrist for almost killing the man.

  • key word - "She"

  • Do you have Swedish ancestors?

    Cus my father looked JUST like you in his 30s-40s. Strange to see.

  • there is one person who didn't like this video, I think we know who she is...

  • @CommonRaven Yeah, I was rather surprised at that as well. If an accident like this had happened where I live, the driver would have been facing prison time. In Oregon, hit and run (or "leaving the scene of an accident" in legal terms) is a felony punishable by a year in prison at a minimum (I believe the maximum is two years if no maliciousness in the "accident" is evident). The only exception to prison time would have been the advent of a condition that would have stripped the driver's license

  • @DistendedPerinium (continued) permanently or the driver sustained an injury in the accident that impaired mental function. In the former case, the driver would still be facing legal issues.

  • @DistendedPerinium I live near to where this accident happened and lots of accidents happen there but they don't even lock burglars up here in the UK now! and everyone I know thinks its terrible, its cos all the prisons are full, I think they got a similar problem in the states.

  • @MindCrazedBanjo In a lot of states, such as California, New York, Florida and other densely populated states they have overcrowding problems in prisons. In the Pacific Northwest, population density is relatively low (only roughly 4 million here in Oregon, an area a little larger than the UK), so we don't have that problem. For the most part, each state handles its own prison system (ie- commit a crime in Oregon, go to prison in Oregon), so prison crowding is specific to each state.

  • @DistendedPerinium I see what you mean, I saw something about california's prison crowding problem, I think thats what it was.

  • @MindCrazedBanjo Yeah, a couple of weeks ago, the Supreme Court ruled that the overcrowding at California prisons and jails violated the Constitution (something about cruel and unusual punishment) and ordered tens of thousands released. Similar cases are pending.

  • women drivers.. nuff said.

  • About two years ago I was also hit from the rear. The motorist that hit me ran. The Sun just raising to my back.

    The last I remember I was about a quarter mile back, looking in my mirror at the cars comming up.. Then about 20 minutes later, I was standing with complete amnesia. I had no injuries, just mental trauma.

    Now I know what could have happened, I was very lucky..

  • Sorry, you deserve more justice

  • genuin memory loss... but.... she crashed her car into a cyclist. How do you forget that in the space of seconds?!?!?!?!

  • Very interesting video.

  • I've walked instead of drove in order to get where I'm going and there have been plenty of instances where drivers have attempted to scare the shit out of me by swerving in my "general direction"... People are such giant dicks!

  • @krstcmjns People are dicks. I had a truck slam on their brakes in front of me because they didn't like motorcycles. Now I have a broken pelvis and thumb and bruising everywhere, bike destroyed and missing work. Haha, so funny, I hope it was worth the grin. It could have been worse too.

  • @aluisious I'm curious, are you seeing a psychologist or a psychiatrist? Because, I know that I'm pretty bothered by people doing this to me, I can't image what you must be going through...

  • @krstcmjns I know what you mean I had the same thing but when I was on my bike some people are just braindead idiots.

  • @MindCrazedBanjo Agree.

  • Memo to self: Do not ride bike, at nigh or day just don't risk it, and the same for motorcycles.

  • "She was..." Women in traffic!

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  • Thinking about my neck vertebrae gives me the creeps...so fragile!

  • at 1:59 you can see your teeth and something is shining is that a golden tooth?

  • @Mrluisao17

    The shining on the CT is an anomaly caused by a metal object.

    The anomaly is probably being caused by dental filling, any or most metallic alloys or amalgam used in dental restoration, could cause this.

  • **insert joke about women drivers here**

  • what are the lights that you use on the front of your bike? they look cool

  • "She..."

  • Hey, wait a minute!

    "Baseball bat"? Not a cricket bat?

    Is this guy American??

  • @culwin they're two different types of bats. People play baseball in the UK too although it's usually called rounders and has slightly different rules- but it uses a baseball bat to play.

  • You guys have a physics channel, sixtysymbols, and a chemistry channel, periodicvideos, but do you have a kind of biology channel as well?

  • I don't understand the mentality of a person who can run someone down then flee the scene leaving them for dead. I don't really buy the memory loss story. If you can't remember running someone over, maybe you shouldn't be allowed to drive in the first place. Just saying.

  • it's kindof interesting that both the cyclist and the driver both have memory loss of the event.

    might be a similar effect to UFO abductions. Not sayin' UFOs are real - just that these people do lose time, and there must be some kindof cause out there. Tends to happen on country roads too.

  • @roidroid Brain trauma causes memory loss, so the cyclist's memory loss is easily understandable. For the driver... well, maybe mental stress can cause memory loss.. or maybe she's lying.

  • @thelleht did you learn that from watching House MD too? i did :D

  • The driver was not properly punished. Leaving the scene should have removed all leniency from the judge's decision.

  • @nottinghamscience its a bit like saying everyone should wear kevlar vests to avoid being injured when stabbed

    helmets discourage cycling, instead stop drivers injuring and murdering people

  • @mcjhn It's simpler to put on a helmet than to cure bad driving in everyone. Maybe when there is a cure for what people are bad at i will agree with you, but for now he is right.

  • @Wranid hmm, but I think we need to encourage lots more people to cycle and helmets put people off, this TED talk about it is good /watch?v=07o-TASvIxY

  • Get sun or take your vitamin-D!

  • Wow. Fate has an interesting way of working sometimes. I am glad Mr McNally (Dr.?) appears to be alright. I especially enjoyed his analogy of the choice of being hit on the head with a bat with or without a helmet. That certainly gives a person pause. I look forward to the followup video.

  • I would never cycle on roads with motor vehicles, it's just too dangerous. If they want to encourage cycling then cycle lanes separate from the road need to be built.

  • :(

  • Luck had nothing to do with it, he was just more closely related to chuck norris.

    But srsly though, it's amazing he's both still alive and moving very well! Lucky he didn't get wheelchair bound or anything.

  • Finally something i fully understand

    Did he lose the ability to walk , Feel or both ? ( from the lumbar vertebral fracture )

    and he is a lucky man indeed 3 week's ago a patient died in the ER for atlas bone fracture & a skull base fracture ( probably from the skull base fracture )

    Thank you very much Mr.Donal for sharing this experience with us

  • I'm surprised no one (at least on current comments page) pointed out that special bike paths significantly improve safety of biking as well. I don't think that's the reason to not to wear helmet, but it dramatically reduces a risk of some jackass ramming you while having "memory loss".

    Back to the topic, I like the approach of this spine expert - I'd be glad to see more of medicine-oriented videos. :)

  • shouldn't the driver get more punishment for leaving you? that sentence sounds about right for the dangerous driving, but leaving you on the side of the road is terrible.

  • Women drivers...a woman was driving when I was struck, crossing the street after getting an ice cream. Shattered my femur. My right leg is shorter than my left leg because there wasn't enough bone left to set it back together, so they had to splice the bone together. I was 7. Women drivers irritate the hell outta me. Especially when I see them ditzing around on their phones. Oh and on a side note, a woman driver hit my mothers PARKED car, it was clearly in the park lane and she plowed on into it

  • Great story.

  • 2 wheels good 4 four wheels bad, the driver should be banned for life.

  • Glad you recovered, amazing how life hangs by a thread every day.

  • I work at a chiropractic office and have learned the importance of spinal health. It is literally the switchboard to your entire body. Take care of it.

  • Now that is some serious and bastardly irony. Very glad you are ok, I cannot fathom how someone can leave a person to die like that.

  • Wow! What an incredible story. A very big thank you to Donal for sharing that story with us!

    John.

  • This is one of the highest quality video interviews I've seen in a while. I plan on e-mailing this to family members that do a bit of cycling, and hope to encourage them to wear helmets while doing so.

    Thanks for the time and effort. Great work, this is professional caliber material, for whatever that lamen-compliment is worth to you.

  • She should have been required to perform 1 hour of community service for every hour you were in the hospital, in recovery and in rehab. I think 1200 to 1800 hours ought to do it...

  • I thought studies were very uncertain on the benefits of cycle helmets in a crash.

    Sure, it couldn't hurt (although a study did find cars give helmetted riders less room. Helmet wearers may also be involved in more risk/crashes). Where helmets are mandated, no reduction in fatality is apparent. Pushing helmets does seem to scare people into a reduction in cycle use however, (see some comments here) ... the low statistics for cycling injury vs sedentary-lifestyle outcomes then needs considered.

  • i think 18 month not driving and some social hours is way too few! leaving someone badly injured on the roat is ridiculous : (

    I am happy that you are allright again = )

  • How are you dealing with the pain ?

  • So glad you're ok but couldn't help but enjoy the irony of the event.

    At least you have a better idea of what was going on in your body.

    Interesting and mildly ironic.

  • This video has two levels to me.

    First the story being told, with an effect that is quite "Isn't that interesting".

    Second the looks on his face. It's been quite a while since I've seen someone look so sad, while smiling from time to time. Of course I could be horribly wrong. I apologize for that; blue/grey eyes usually look rather expressive.

  • Makes me feel I should use a helmet being a pedestrian!

    Thanks for sharing. Sorry you had to experience this. Hopefully some of your research has helped you recovering ;-/

  • I wasnt wearing a helmet and I was riding (racing someone on a motor bike) in my town I turned the corner hit a stone lost control of my bike and i hit a lamp post... I wish I was sensible enough to wear a helmet. My ear was beading my, ears were ringing, I was so dizzy I couldn't stand up and I had a massive headache, afterwards the side of my face and the side of my body way bruised. But I havent learnt my lesson I just dont ride a bike anymore!!

  • A large dog AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH.

  • He's a lucky guy, also this is why I refuse to cycle.

  • @MisterB0z After a ban of 12 months or longer, you have to take a compulsory extended driving test before you can get back on the roads- so yes, I hope the driver fails! What a poor excuse for a human being.

  • I think I'm going to start wearing a helmet... It's dangerous around here for cyclists. Thanks for this very interesting and informative video. I think I learned something tonight...

  • Thank you for persuading me to always wear a helmet. No matter how sportive you are and how careful you drive, there is always a slight possibility that something unexpected like this is gonna happen. It is also important to think about visibility, I am glad that the lights of my bike are working again.

    The judges might have their reasons, we don't know. Even if the verdict is unjust, this is not the right place to complain.

  • very glad he wasn't brain damaged or paralyzed, where i live in the southern US about 1 person is killed every 4 months because the city isn't designed for bicycles

  • <-- T4 burst fracture in 1992, been wheelchair bound since.

  • happy to see u've covered

  • memory loss? oh bullshit.

    interesting video though.

  • Brady, this is great. I don't mean in the "we like to here these bad things" way, but for a science channels it is amazing. I hope you will spend some more time in the medical/biology departments, although we love the Physics and Chem

  • It's good to see you looking good and well again. You were bitch-slapped by the god of irony and survived. There's plenty of people out there who owe their quality of life to people like you and you deserve a big 'Thank you'.

  • Women drivers...

  • that guy is my hero now.

  • Awesome tooth filling CT streak artifact there!

    Insanely low punishment for such a terrible thing to do.

    It's a hit and run by a driver who was obviously not paying attention at all.

    "I thought it was a dog" is huge bullshit, a dog isn't made out of metal and doesn't wear a helmet and lights.

  • @MelleB90 The driver never said they thought he was a dog. The people who found him said that.

  • So she ran him over and made a conscious decision to drive away without calling for help and he got her licence suspended for 18 months? Was that a joke or...in my mind that amounts to murder. 

  • @3GBlog Call it the UK justice system, which always puts the rights of the criminals first and the victims last.

  • 18 months disqualification... What a joke.

    It took a massive impact for Donal McNally to lose his memory, it took nothing but guilt for that driver to "lose" theirs. If it takes mere emotions for that driver to block out their actions and supposedly do something inhuman, they shouldn't be allowed the privilege of a the use of any implement other than a knife and fork. And even then, that would be a risk to them and others.

  • "The driver was disqualified from driving for 18 months"

    I'm glad that our roads will be that bit safer. For all of 18 months...

  • @Misterb0z And when they get back on the road they will be out of practice...

  • @Misterb0z 18 months is not enough, Donal almost died for crying out loud!

    Women shouldn't drive, it would make roads safer altogether : ). I'm kidding.

  • @Misterb0z

    i wouldn't count on it. i'm on my second driving ban now, neither of which actually stopped me from driving. i should point out that i've never had an accident while driving, i just refuse to pay speeding and seatbelt fines.

  • @Misterb0z

    In their defence, they did plead guilty.

  • @Misterb0z yea but in eighteen months this person with "genuine memory loss" will be back on the road. I think 18 months is a disgrace.

  • You're very lucky. I couldn't even imagine the thoughts that were going through your head when you learned you had a spinal injury. I expect the first thing you did afterward was move your limbs in absolute relief.

    Sleep paralysis hints at how awful the feeling is.

  • Genius

  • OUCH.

  • ive been saying it all along. god either doesnt exist, or he has one hell of a sense of humour.

  • Sorry to the handful of you who saw a version of this video an hour or two ago... Moments after uploading it, I unexpectedly received the official police photos and thought I should add them.

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