As a engine racing legend, Stirling Moss had his satisfactory share of life-threatening accidents during his Grand Prix days, majority memorably the 1962 pile-up at Goodwood that put him in a deep sleep for 38 days and finished his career.
He competence have thought that scarcely 40 years after his retirement, and in the joy of his own home, he would be safe.
However, last night Sir Stirling, 80, was recuperating in sanatorium after descending 9m (30ft) down a lift missile on Saturday at his gadget-filled home in Mayfair, London, after the doorway non-stop at the wrong time.
Among his injuries were dual damaged ankles, 4 damaged skeleton in his feet and 4 chipped vertebrae. Surgeons operated on both ankles and his liberation is approaching to take up to 6 weeks.
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For all the damaged bones, the collision has not dented Sir Stirlings spirit. I am not ready to go only yet, he told his son Elliott in the ambulance on the approach to hospital.
Sir Stirling"s spokesman, Patrick Crew, pronounced that that the collision was less critical than it competence have been since the bigotry of the lift missile ensured that he landed on his legs.
His home, that in the 1960s featured afterwards unheard-of innovations such as a remote-controlled radio and a washing-up machine, includes between the decorations the deformed steering wheels from dual of his majority thespian crashes.
One is from the Lotus-Climax he crashed in during use for the Belgian Grand Prix in 1960, when he pennyless his back; the alternative is from the Goodwood pile-up of 1962, after that he remained in a deep sleep for 38 days.
During his career, from 1951 to 1961, Sir Stirling entered 66 grands prix and had sixteen wins, sixteen stick positions and twenty-four lectern finishes. He was runner-up in the World Championship 4 times.
