A TERRIFYNIG motorcycle accident left this sportscar fanatic PINNED between his motorcycle and a truck, leaving him PARAPLEGIC and requiring an eight-hour blood transfusion, before being woken from his coma to decide whether to have his leg amputated – but he has since defied doctors and is now an incomplete paraplegic.

Owner of Second Chance Racing, Tanner Arbuthnot (25) from Washington, USA was riding his motorcycle on January 30, 2016 when a truck pulled out in front of him, causing Tanner to hit the truck head on.

The force of hitting the truck made the back wheel of Tanner’s motorbike lift and hit his head. Tanner was folded backwards and pinned between the truck and his motorbike. Emergency services arrived to treat Tanner, but doctors feared he could die from his extensive injuries.


Tanner had a brain bleed, shattered vertebrae, a spinal cord injury, two collapsed lungs, broken wrists, paralysed right hand, broken legs, broken ankles and degloving on his left thigh. Doctors told Tanner’s family to say their goodbyes, but he continued to progress slowly.

In the first two months after his accident, Tanner had 13 life-saving surgeries, including an eight-hour blood transfusion when he first arrived at the hospital. He also had a spinal surgery to remove a vertebra and then fuse his spine back together, leaving him with a five-degree curvature of the spine.