- A Victorian farmer fractured his neck while leaning over the front of his bike
- He still managed to ride 500m home by holding his head upright by the hair
- Doctors confirmed that he’d broken the two vertebrae at the top of his spine
- He had four bolts put in to help it heal and is recovering slowly from the fall
A Victorian farmer who fractured his neck while leaning over the front of his bike has shown incredible resolve to ride himself home to call an ambulance despite suffering a broken neck.
Jim, 73, explained that he was stooping to check the ground for grasshoppers when he hit a ditch and cracked his head on the ground.
‘But I don’t think I was knocked out, so I got to my feet,’ he told 3AW. ‘I knew there was something seriously wrong.
‘My head wouldn’t stay up… The pain, it hurt so much, so I just held it up by my hair.’

A farmer riding a motorbike has hit a ditch and fractured the two vertebrae closest to his skull

Jim, 73, managed to ride home to his West Gippsland property holding his head up by the hair
9NEWS reported that he got back on his bike and rode half a kilometre back to his house, and then called an ambulance.
Doctors quickly confirmed that he’d fractured the two vertebrae near the top of his spine and put four bolts in his skull.
The West Gippsland cattle farmer is now recovering from the December 8 accident.

He called an ambulance from home, which took him to the hospital for proper medical care
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