It is no secret that many sports stars love to spend
their earnings on high-speed cars and motorbikes. While most of them avoid
major incidents while driving, the following athletes have all suffered
spectacular crashes that they were lucky to survive.
Ben
Roethlisberger
The Pittsburgh Steeler quarterback has set many
records in his long and impressive NFL career. Among them, he became the first
quarterback in history to lead his team to 20 comeback wins before turning 30.
In 2006, Roethlisberger was riding his motorcycle in
Pittsburgh without a helmet and with an expired temporary license.
He flew into the windscreen of a car at the
Armstrong Tunnel / Second Avenue intersection and later said that paramedics
saved his life when they stopped the bleeding in his throat. A nine-inch
laceration to his head, broken jaw, and 7
hours or surgery added up to a painful experience but he was able to resume
his NFL career afterward.
Jay Williams
Williams
had a hugely promising career in basketball ahead of him. He was the NABC
Player of the Year in both 2001 and 2002. In the NBA draft in 2002, he was the
second pick and joined the Chicago Bulls. After working to try and establish
himself in the Bulls team, tragedy struck in June 2003.
Williams
was riding a new Yamaha motorbike without a helmet and despite it being
forbidden in his contract. He crashed into
a streetlight in a Chicago intersection and was sent flying through the air.
The resulting severed main nerve in his leg, torn knee ligaments, and fractured
pelvis effectively ended his NBA career before it had properly started.
Chad Jones
Chad Jones was
another athlete whose promising career was destroyed by a traffic accident. After
a successful career in college football, he was picked by the New York Giants
in the 2010 NFL draft. However, his career was ended when he crashed the new
Land Rover that he bought that same year
Reports suggest
that Jones lost control of the powerful vehicle and hit a pole, and the player
thinks that he may have fallen asleep at the wheel. He suffered a
life-threatening amount of blood loss and several fractures in his leg.
Released from football
due to injuries, he was lucky to be able
to turn to baseball and joined the Cincinnati Reds in the 2013 MLB draft.
He is now part of the regular picks of the MLB betting scene.
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Dany
Heatley
German-born Heatley was a prolific scorer in the
NHL, but his life was turned upside down in 2003, when he crashed his Ferrari
into a brick pillar. He was playing for the Atlanta Thrashers at the time and
his team-mate Dan Synder tragically died in the crash.
Heatley avoided jail-time over the incident but
ended up getting three years’ probation and having a court restriction on the
type of vehicle he can drive. He asked to move away from Atlanta after the
accident and has played for a few different teams then, with the last one being
the Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers in Germany.
Bobby Hurley
Hurley was chosen by
the Sacramento Kings as the seventh overall pick in the NBA’s 1993 draft. This
came after a great spell in college basketball that saw him ranked as one of
the country’s outstanding young prospects, with a record number of NCAA assists
that still stands.
However, in his rookie
season in the NBA, he was driving an SUV that got hit by another vehicle.
Hurley didn’t have a seat belt on and he got thrown out of his SUV, leading to
serious injuries. He carried on playing
but the injuries limited his career and he ended up becoming a head coach after
retiring at a young age.