Freak accident leaves motorcyclist with severe neck injury
>A FREAK accident on Sunday afternoon saw a motorcyclist's neck sliced open after it got caught in a lightning conductor that had come loose from a pedestrian overhead bridge.
The motorcyclist Mr Adrian Ng was travelling along Thomson Road with his pillion rider and girlfriend Carol Hwee when it happened just in front of the Thomson Meidical Centre.
The incident left the 28-year-old chef in Tan Tock Seng Hospital's high dependency unit with severe injury to his neck.
His voice box and thyroid gland is also damaged and doctors have also created a tracheostomy - an opening in his throat - to help him breathe.
The couple had gone to OG Albert Complex to do some shopping that afternoon but decided to leave when they saw it was about to rain, Ms Hwee said, as she recounted the incident to the Straits Times yesterday.
The 20-year-old private student said they were heading for her home in Toa Payoh. Traffic conditions were light on that stretch of Thomson Road that day and it was just drizzling.
Her boyfriend - who just had obtained his motorbike licence in Febuary - was also riding slowly on the slowest lane.
'I then saw the cable and the next moment we were on the road,' Ms Hwee said.
