Gary Knight

And there were two Volkswagen camper vans coming quite fast in the opposite direction.

And as we got closer to each other, I lost sight of the white camper van.

It was so close to the black one.

But when I came round this corner, it appeared and it was on my side of the road.

And traveling at that speed, I had nowhere to go.

There was no room on the road.

I had to come off the road.

I went over a concrete ledge and then went airborne and hit a huge lump of granite with my shoulder and my head and I saw it coming towards me and it was inevitable what was going to happen.

I had the impact and it was incredibly painful and the bike sort of skidded off ahead of me and I came to a real halt.

But the van, both vans, drove off up the mountain

I have no doubt that both drivers would have seen me.

It's impossible, unless they were on their phones, that they wouldn't.

But my friends who were riding behind me, who'd lost sight of me, rode straight by.

I could hear them riding by.

I was quite distraught.

I called out, I think, to them a little bit, but feebly, and they'd gone and they left.

And so I picked up my phone to call them, to ask them to come back, but I had no reception, so I couldn't reach them.

I was in really the middle of nowhere.

I lifted up my bike, tried to get back on the bike, but realized I couldn't move my shoulder.

At that point, I was standing on the side of the road, you know, with a ripped shirt and clearly not quite right.