HeliHenri, yes I was riding a bicycle and collided with an oncoming car (silly mistake).
I realise that Morzine is in France but my assertion that it was a Swiss helicopter was based on information received from the travel insurance company, who said (and I can’t be sure which way round it was) that either the French or Swiss worked on a reciprocal basis but that one or other didn’t.
Yes, thank you, I’m fine now, it’s almost a year since the accident. I had a pneumothorax / slight hemothorax, a broken clavicle, scapular and rib. I spent 5 days in hospital in France then on the car journey back to the UK my clavicle moved out of alignment so I went to hospital again in the UK and had a titanium plate and ten screws installed to hold it together, that will probably remain in there now.
SASless, I am not criticizing them for one second, I am very grateful to them.
I merely posted the photo as a reminder that often these crews do work in close proximity to a number of dangers, including wires, and that (as HeliHenri has pointed out) given the number of operations flown in these circumstances it is not inconceivable that rarely a mistake is made.
Anyway the guys who tended to me were brilliant (appeared very casual but consummately professional) and I am not calling into question their judgment or airmanship at all.
My injuries were not life threatening but you can’t be too careful and I was grateful for the helicopter as the road journey would have taken a lot longer and been less comfortable.
Last edited by crice; 26th July 2012 at 19:00.