Hall of Fame jockey Jim Cassidy says he is lucky to be alive after suffering a horror head-on car accident after playing golf on Saturday.
Hall of Fame jockey Jim Cassidy has revealed how close he came to death after being involved in a horror head-on car accident on Saturday.
“The airbag went off. I’ve never seen one go off before. With all the dust, I thought the car was on fire. I was panicking so I was just trying to get out. They found me staggering around on the road.”“I’ve got a sore head and a sore body but I’m blessed,” he said. “I have a little bit of bleeding on the brain but that’s stopped, according to the neurosurgeons. My head is quite big. My head smashed into the driver’s side window. It was swelling up right before my mum’s eyes yesterday.
One of the sport's greatest jockeys before retiring in 2015, Cassidy suffered numerous race falls and injuries throughout his illustrious riding career. Renowned for having a high pain threshold, Cassidy didn’t go to hospital but X-rays later revealed he had a 14cm crack in his sternum.
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