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Gary Lightbody breaks rib in go kart crash
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 13 August 2009
Okay, musicians, will all of you please stop collapsing on stage and generally injuring yourselves in silly ways? It’s not funny and it’s not clever. Well, actually, some of them have been funny, but none have been clever.
Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody has revealed that he was recently hospitalised after breaking a rib in a go karting accident following a T-Mobile Street Gig in Germany in July.
Lightbody told The Daily Record: “I had my very best idiot trousers on in Germany at the Street Gig and we did a go kart track in Dettenheim. I did say beforehand that I shouldn’t be in charge of anything that can go over 20 miles per hour, and secondly I am the most accident-prone idiot in the western world. Did I heed my own advice? No! Crash after crash I finished on a particularly nasty one that put me in hospital where I discovered I had a broken rib”.
