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The Prince of Wales rushed to help an injured motorcyclist after an accident on a mountain road.
The prince, who is on holiday at Balmoral, was driving a Land Rover Discovery when he saw 52-year-old Hugh Simpson, who had fallen off his motorbike seconds earlier and plunged down a 15ft embankment.
Charles and his Scotland Yard protection officers in a following vehicle stopped and hurried to help Mr Simpson, who ended up only a few feet short of a fast-flowing river.
The detectives gave him first aid and the royal party waited with him until an ambulance arrived. He was taken to hospital in Dundee, where he had surgery on a shattered wrist.
The incident took place late on Sunday afternoon on the Old Military Road, or A93, near the Glenshee Ski Centre in Aberdeenshire.
Mr Simpson, a salesman from from Crieff in Perthshire, was riding a 187mph Kawasaki 1200 ZZR. Last night he said from hospital: "I cannot thank Prince Charles and his bodyguards enough.
"I came around a corner and hit a patch of gravel. I had just about regained control when I ran out of road and hit a grass verge.
"I woke up lying face down with the bike beside me. I knew my wrist was smashed and was relieved when the Prince's men turned up.
"They were first aid experts and had all the medical kit required in their Land Rover.
"They had oxygen and splints and a neck kit they put around me. They made me feel quite comfortable very quickly.
"They even phoned the hospital to inquire how I was later on."
Good on you Charley:thumbsup:
gettin2dizzy
16-10-07, 03:30 PM
all the kings horses and all the kings men...
Fair play to him, that has certainly made me think of him in a different light.
Ceri JC
16-10-07, 03:33 PM
Well done Prince Charles, good on you.
gettin2dizzy
16-10-07, 03:34 PM
He wants us to leave the EU :)
That's good enough in my book
Nice story. One of his lads rides doesn't he?
On the other hand, this
... was riding a 187mph Kawasaki 1200 ZZR...
irrelevant journalistic rubbish never fails to annoy me.
irrelevant journalistic rubbish never fails to annoy me.
This also ****ed me off, it insinuates to the dumb and quick to jump to conclusion brigade that the rider was doing those speed at the time of the accident.
Warthog
16-10-07, 03:46 PM
Nice one Charles!
Ceri JC
16-10-07, 03:55 PM
Nice story. One of his lads rides doesn't he?
Yep. I've also seen photos of the D of E on a bike. :)
philipMac
16-10-07, 04:09 PM
Nice story. One of his lads rides doesn't he?
On the other hand, this
irrelevant journalistic rubbish never fails to annoy me.
Right.
Total "He had it coming to him the silly ****" subtext there.
In all the patting of the back of Ol Prince Charley he's hardly like just to drive past is he, he's done nothing more than the average man would have done! Could you imagine the backlash had he driven past.
Headline:
Prince Leaves Man for Dead in Ditch
It would hardly the greatest PR stunt.
I'm not slatting the guy, I quite like him as it happens, I'm just pointing out that nothing really amazing has taken place other than one man has help another.
Miss Alpinestarhero
16-10-07, 05:25 PM
Good on him :D
Maria
Biker Biggles
16-10-07, 05:31 PM
If you are going to crash and you cant manage to do it in front of an ambulance thats not a bad option.
I met Charlie once,and he has so much more personality than his public image.
Good for him.
Pedrosa
16-10-07, 05:43 PM
At least the poor biker did not have to further suffer mouth to mouth from Camilla!:p:p:p
Am I bad?:rolleyes:
Fizzy Fish
17-10-07, 06:05 AM
At least the poor biker did not have to further suffer mouth to mouth from Camilla!:p:p:p
Am I bad?:rolleyes:
:lol:
doesn't wills have a bike as well? I remember seeing pics a few years back of him on a Triumph Daytona with a bodyguard on a BMW.
gettin2dizzy
17-10-07, 07:00 AM
but it would have been easy for him to drive past worrying it could be some kind of ambush. You know how mad a world we live in! I think he always seems very level headed, he's more than aware what position of power and influence he has yet he just goes about his every day business
Scooby Drew
17-10-07, 07:07 AM
:lol:
doesn't wills have a bike as well? I remember seeing pics a few years back of him on a Triumph Daytona with a bodyguard on a BMW.
I think both lads have had a thrash around Goodwood if I remember, with Harry being the faster. Mind you, that would have been according to the paper that no-one really believes :plod::alien:
And you can't come down that road at 187mph- about 130ish, tops ;)
Ceri JC
17-10-07, 09:25 AM
In all the patting of the back of Ol Prince Charley he's hardly like just to drive past is he, he's done nothing more than the average man would have done! Could you imagine the backlash had he driven past.
Have you never come off a bike then? Most cager don't stop. Besides, how would we have know it was Prince Charles, if he'd not stopped? In any event, I don't think he made a calculated decision, "Ho hum, best stop and help, or it'll be all over the tabloids." I think he's probably a decent bloke, saw the guy crash and did what he could to help.
gettin2dizzy
17-10-07, 09:48 AM
Must have been weird waking up in a daze to see the bonnie prince putting an oxygen mask on you!
'am I dead?'
The Basket
17-10-07, 11:08 AM
Charles did nothing and got his bodyguards to do the work!
In Scotland...it is legal to leave the scene of an accident as long as you are not the cause.
So Charles was not legally bound to help in this cause.
Actually i'm with Swiss on this one.
I'm certainly not taking any praise away from him stopping to help and considering the help that he could offer was more then any mere Joe Bloggs passing by it was no doubt much more appreciated.
However, is it just me that thinks to stop at an accident site and give what help you can isn't just something nice people do.. I would like to think that it is something everyone would do in his situation. I know that perhaps this is nieve thinking in this day and age!
I'm also confused as to what bearing it has on the situation that it isnt a legal requirement to stop?! If you see an accident and you can help surely you have a moral obligation to do your best to help??
plowsie
17-10-07, 02:55 PM
Nice gesture, probs anyone woulda done it though, good that he got decent treatment from the start though. Maybe felt a bit responsible due to his lads having bikes...
+1 on the dodgy journalism too!
The Basket
17-10-07, 03:17 PM
Morality and legality are not the same.
But in Scotland that is the law.
I understand that basket ;)
... however i was just pointing out that just because it's not a legal requirement doesnt mean that it isnt a moral requirement...
and surely someone who is as prestigious as ol charlie boy clearly he has a moral responsibilitiy to uphold. ???!??
northwind
17-10-07, 03:40 PM
If I felt like being a d*** I could point out that if they abolished the monarchy and plowed that money into better public services then instead of helping one crashed motorist he could help all of them ;)
Warthog
17-10-07, 04:41 PM
I think the problem is that with recent threads showing that people would rather take photos of injured bikers rather than help, it is nice to know that the Prince of Wales, someone who might have a small reason not to stop (heavy schedule, terrorist attack, not liking plebs or whatever), still stops.
philipMac
17-10-07, 07:48 PM
The Prince is a marked man.
The Terrorists run a dry run first, test the waters, see how he reacts, sure enough, hook line and sinker there he is.
OK.
Now to business.
Fill the blackbird (think of all that lovely fairing room) with C4.
Stage another "crash" just up the road from Charles...
Oh, hello... You seemed to have crashed your motorcicle old chap! Let me assist KaBOOM.
You heard it here first folks.
Its always about the terrorists.
And/or Steve Jobs.
Filipe M.
18-10-07, 08:15 AM
Its always about the terrorists.
And/or Steve Jobs.
Pah. Terrorists are nothing compared to Steve Jobs. Just ask Bill Gates or Steve Balmer! :p
gettin2dizzy
18-10-07, 08:28 AM
The Prince is a marked man.
The Terrorists run a dry run first, test the waters, see how he reacts, sure enough, hook line and sinker there he is.
OK.
Now to business.
Fill the blackbird with C4.
Stage another "crash" just up the road from Charles...
Oh, hello... You seemed to have crashed your motorcicle old chap! Let me assist KaBOOM.
You heard it here first folks.
Its always about the terrorists.
And/or Steve Jobs.
would the blackbird fly over the prince and the zzr1200? Even columbo would struggle working out that one! ace! ;)
gettin2dizzy
18-10-07, 08:29 AM
In Scotland...it is legal to leave the scene of an accident as long as you are not the cause.
Stopping would decrease your mpg!
Have you never come off a bike then? Most cager don't stop. Besides, how would we have know it was Prince Charles, if he'd not stopped? In any event, I don't think he made a calculated decision, "Ho hum, best stop and help, or it'll be all over the tabloids." I think he's probably a decent bloke, saw the guy crash and did what he could to help.
Yes.
Read what I have written. If you're finding it difficult I'll try using less complicated words.
The Basket
18-10-07, 10:35 AM
The guards could have shot the biker so he is very lucky to be alive.
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