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This is the terrifying moment a biker broke her leg and jaw in a horror crash while racing across the desert in St George, Utah.

Alexa Whitlock, 22, was riding at 50mph across bumpy sand when she hit a deep ravine and was thrown from her motorbike.

She also chipped her teeth in the grisly accident and has had to undergo three surgeries including having her jaw wired shut for six weeks.

But the biker, who takes part in hillclimbing where drivers compete against the clock to complete an uphill course on a motorbike, is back on her bike and insisted that the crash will not dampen her love of riding.

She wants to inspire other women to get involved in the male dominated motor sport.

Alexa, an event coordinator from Springville, Utah, was on a biking trip with two girlfriends when she hit the concealed ravine on December 12.

She said: “I was going through some deep bumps in the sand and you have to go really fast to get over them.

“All of a sudden a deep ravine came out of nowhere.

“I’m happy I didn’t try and stop because I would have smacked my face on the ground.

“Unfortunately my front tyre caught the very top of the other side and I went down and hit my chin.”

In the shocking video, Alexa’s chest protector is covered in blood and she appears to be disorientated.

As her two girlfriends try to inspect the gash under her chin, Alexa asks: ‘Can we just superglue it out?’

Doctors treated her fractured leg at the ER but Alexa said that it was her broken jaw, which was not treated for three months, that caused her the most pain.

“It hurt to eat, sleep and talk.

“Three months after my crash, I went to a jaw specialist and he told me that my jaw was completely fractured.

“My jaw had been broken for three months and I had no idea.”

Alexa underwent a two-and-a-half hour surgery and her mouth was wired shut for six weeks.

“Unfortunately I still don’t have feeling in my cheek and chin but we are hoping that it will come back as it can take up to a year to heal nerve damage.

“I was on a liquid diet for six weeks and that was hard because I like to eat.”

However Alexa, who was named the 2018 hillclimbing champion by the North American Hillclimbers Association, was determined to continue biking and even rode with her jaw wired shut.

“I decided I’m not going to let this scare me from getting on my bike.

“If you want to get better, you have to push yourself and go faster and you might go down.

“A week after my jaw surgery, I rode with my mouth wired shut.”

Alexa added that her love of biking started young when her father Travis Whitlock, a three time world champion hillclimber, encouraged her to start biking when she was just four years old.

“My dad was the one who got me into riding dirt bikes.

“He encouraged me and my sister to do scary things and not be afraid of getting hurt.

“I’ve been riding ever since I was four years old.”

Six months after the crash, Alexa is still recovering but she is in back in the saddle and said she wants to inspire other women to get into the male-dominated sport of hillclimbing.

“I got back on the bike because even though that is what hurt me, it’s what I love to do and it’s what makes me feel alive.

“I want to help females get into the sport.

“It is scary for girls to get into a sport that is so male dominated.

“I want to make girls feel more welcome.

“I do get a lot of guys who say: ‘why is she riding a bike?’, ‘why are you in such a dangerous sport?’

“But girls can do it just like guys can.”

Alexa posts videos and photographs of her hillclimbing adventures to her Instagram account @shreddylexa.