Jay Leno breaks bones in motorcycle crash months after garage fire

Cox Media ^ | January 27, 2023 | Natalie Dreier

[george76]

Months after suffering third-degree burns in a fire that erupted while working on one of his antique cars, Jay Leno was injured in a mishap.

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Leno broke several bones in a motorcycle crash last week.

The comedian was speaking by phone with a reporter, telling him that he was “knocked off my motorcycle. So I’ve got a broken collarbone. I’ve got two broken ribs. I’ve got two cracked kneecaps.”

“So I turned down a side street and cut through a parking lot, and unbeknownst to me, some guy had a wire strung across the parking lot but with no flag hanging from it,” Leno told the newspaper. “So, you know, I didn’t see it until it was too late. It just clothesline me and, boom, knocked me off the bike.”

He said he didn’t say anything about the crash that happened on Jan. 17 because of the media coverage he received surrounding his burns.

“You know, after getting burned up, you get that one for free,” Leno said. “After that, you’re Harrison Ford, crashing airplanes. You just want to keep your head down (laughs).”

Ford has had several airplane mishaps: one in 2020 when he had to do a touch-and-go landing after being told to hold his position, another in 2017 when he landed on a taxiway, still another in 2015 when he crashed a World War II-era training plane onto a golf course, in 2000 when his plane was blown from the runway by wind and finally in 1999 when he had to make an emergency landing in a dry riverbed, The New York Times reported.

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Leno had been scheduled to return to the Las Vegas Strip in March and said that he was OK and was scheduled to perform this weekend.

The comedian was working on a 1907 White Motor Co. steam-powered car when he found the fuel line clogged. He told a friend who he was working with to blow air through the line and gas rained down on his face. The car’s pilot light flickered and caught his face on fire

[Irish Eyes]

That is spooky looking.

[oldteen]

Not 80...only 72.

[dforest]

I see lots roped up all the time. People rope them off for a reason. Speeding across a lot is also dangerous to others who could be coming out of establishments those lots are for.

[Jotmo]

Not BS at all. I’ve seen this many times.

Sounds like it was across a driveway adjacent to the parking lot, not just randomly strung across the parking lot.

[FreeReign]

I think that Leno’s is writing checks his older body can’t cash. He might want to think of slowing down on the daredevil stunts.

Seems to me that both his accidents have nothing to do with him having an "old body".

Keep going Jay, just don't cut through private lots.

[dforest]

Thanks, you are a good one too.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Ford has had several airplane mishaps: one in 2020 when he had to do a touch-and-go landing after being told to hold his position, another in 2017 when he landed on a taxiway, still another in 2015 when he crashed a World War II-era training plane onto a golf course, in 2000 when his plane was blown from the runway by wind and finally in 1999 when he had to make an emergency landing in a dry riverbed, The New York Times reported.

That's a shame. I heard he's good with Corellian space freighters.

[citizen]

Mid-lifer? 72 years old

[Lazamataz]

I dunno. I don’t think it’s illegal. I once put out a razor-sharp wire across an entrance, and the wire had imbedded glass and was covered with lye, and when the wire was contacted it would wrap around your neck and face like an Alien move facehugger and slowly strangle you and shoot you with 82mm mortar rounds and knives and stuff.

And nobody ever prosecuted ME.

[kagnew]

Boy he just doesn’t learn does he???? He isn’t 20 years old anymore.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

He's been cursed.

[Jotmo]

“Boy he just doesn’t learn does he???? He isn’t 20 years old anymore.”

Learn what, exactly? He was just riding a motorcycle.

You people are acting like he’s base jumping, free climbing and ridding motocross.

So what is there to learn here? Stay home and curl up in a ball?

[PeterPrinciple]

So what is there to learn here? Stay home and curl up in a ball?

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The concept of dying with your boots on has been lost.

https://writingexplained.org/idiom-dictionary/die-with-your-boots-on

[dragnet2]

Not BS at all. I’ve seen this many times.

Wait a minute, you've seen wire strung across parking lots many times, yet Leno never saw it?

I 've NEVER seen wire strung across parking lots. What kind of BS is this?

[When do we get liberated?]

Some guys start dying little piece by piece.
Some guys come from work and wash up, then go racing in the street...

[dragnet2]

Btw, did you notice Leno failed to say why a “Wire” was strung across a parking lots? Nobody was curious? Leno never explained why the wire was there? And what about the person who strung the wire? Was this set up to sabotage motorcyclist?

No mention of parking lot construction? No mention of construction cones? No mention of people working in the parking lot he “Cut through”? C’mon.

Since you see, “Wire strung across parking lots all the time”, what is all this wire strung across paring lots doing there?

[dragnet2]

Btw, Leno admitted, “Cutting across a parking lot”. Do understand in many cities/states this is illegal?

[Jotmo]

Did you read past my first line? Did you read the article?

Nowhere does it say there was wire strung across the parking lot.

I’ve seen what I described, and what I think correlates to what Jay said.

Many times, yes.

Just read. Please.

[dragnet2]

Yes, in many jurisdictions it’s illegal to, “Cut through” parking lots.

[dragnet2]

Sounds like it was across a driveway

Could be? maybe? Sounds like it? Again, did ya note there is no explanation whatsoever, other than, "I cut across a parking lot and hit a wire strung across the lot"?

Btw, do ya understand in most jurisdictions it's illegal to, "Cut across parking lots"??