Woman Who ‘Broke Every Limb’ in Her Body and Nearly Died After Motorcycle Accident Is ‘Determined to Ride Again’

A biker is detailing her grueling recovery after she was run over by a car, suffering broken bones in every limb.
In June 2025, Janet Crook-Moore, from Bourne, England, was on a trip from Germany to Denmark, traveling 15 mph on her motorcycle with a group of 20 bikers. Suddenly, her back wheel slipped, and she was thrown off, skidding across the road before a car towing a trailer ran over her.

“It had been raining, and so my back wheel slipped on something and the bike began sliding,” the 58-year-old quality manager explained to Southwest News Service. “My bike bounced off the car and then I went under it.”
“It was a young family on holiday towing a [trailer], and thankfully they stopped quickly so the [trailer] didn’t go over me too,” she recalled, adding, “It took several people to lift the car off my head.”
Crook-Moore’s helmet protected her from suffering a head injury. Fortunately, an ambulance and a doctor were already nearby when the accident occurred and stopped to help.
Crook-Moore was ultimately put into an induced coma on the roadside. Her injuries were extensive. She fractured two collarbones, broke nine ribs, fractured her sternum and pelvis, punctured a lung and shattered her left femur.

Additionally, she broke her left fibula, her left tibia in three places, damaged her right knee, fractured her left wrist and chipped a bone in her right wrist.
“I woke up five days later in the intensive care unit with a drain in my lung as I’d punctured one, and was like the bionic man with cages on my legs,” she shared. “I had broken every limb in my body. One of the doctors said to my husband that I had given Evel Knievel a run for his money.”
Crook-Moore said she has no memory of the accident, and she asked witnesses not to tell her about the events because she doesn’t want to know how bad it was.
“It’s all a complete blur,” she admitted. “The whole trip has gone from my memory. I only remember waking up from the coma. It was the weirdest thing.”

After seven weeks at the hospital in Germany, Crook-Moore was transported to a hospital closer to home in Nottingham, England. She started physiotherapy from her hospital bed before progressing from a slide board to a walking frame and crutches.
After four months, she was finally able to be discharged and return home.
Now, more than a year after the accident, Crook-Moore still can’t put her full weight on one leg and must wear a brace.
Crook-Moore has since become an ambassador for the National Rehabilitation Centre, whose team helped her learn to walk again. And despite the severity of her crash, she has her eyes set on getting back on her motorcycle when the time is right.
“In June next year, I’m determined to ride again — there will be an international rally in the UK, so I’m getting my bike converted into a trike,” she told the outlet. “People think I’m mad, but I’ve got no qualms about it.”