Crash!

Further Info

This story was made on a two-day located digital storytelling workshop based at Watershed, led by Mobile Bristol in Aug 2005. Participants were artists invited through Watershed’s Photo Net email group. Themes tied in with various locations in and around the Centre of Bristol. The stories were created using Hewlett Packard iPaq portable computers and was supported by Bristol’s Museums, Galleries & Archives.

Transcript

[Sound of traffic noise throughout the story]

This is a bike path - this part of the centre, down past the flower beds with the holly bushes in, from the Watershed, up towards Yates Wine Bar and that thing that looks like a sail, and Neptune. That’s all a cycle track - you wouldn’t ever know. There are little plaques on the ground with a little cycle on but no one really knows it’s a cycle track.

And on this spot I had a really bad bike crash, when a German tourist on a very fast racing bike raced out from behind the holly bushes and crashed into me while I was on my way to work.

Oi! Aaaaaaah!

[Sounds of a bicycle crash]

I went flat on my back and it was very painful. Once I got my breath back I told him what I thought, but he couldn’t understand a word I said and he cycled off in a hurry.

My bike was fine but I had to go to hospital to be X-rayed for a broken collar-bone.

[Sound of ambulance siren]

What a way to start the day!

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