Jay Leno Broke Multiple Bones in a Motorcycle Accident Months After His Burn Injury

Jay Leno Broke Multiple Bones in a Motorcycle Accident Months After His Burn Injury

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Now, Jay Leno is in the news again for a serious accident. He broke multiple bones after being knocked off of a motorcycle on Jan. 17 and has a broken collarbone, two broken ribs, and two cracked kneecaps. Can't Jay get a break?

He insists he's OK, though. “But I’m OK!” he told a reporter for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “I’m OK, I’m working. I’m working this weekend.”

He explained that he was testing an old motorcycle from 1940 and started to smell gasoline. "I turned down a side street and cut through a parking lot, and unbeknownst to me, some guy had a wire strung across the parking lot but with no flag hanging from it,” Jay said. “So, you know, I didn’t see it until it was too late. It just clothesline me and, boom, knocked me off the bike.”

Jay didn't say anything about the accident at first because there'd been so much coverage about the incident in November. “You know, after getting burned up, you get that one for free,” he said. “After that, you’re Harrison Ford, crashing airplanes. You just want to keep your head down (laughs).”

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