Accident
On Friday 18 May 2007 Garry’s racing career came to an abrupt end at Somerset speedway, when a freak racing accident left him paralysed from the waist down and in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
Garry today is still very proud of the fact that he never missed a season since his Speedway Career started way back in 1987 as a raw Speedway recruit. He hoped that he would return to ride for the Hull Vikings before his racing career ended but that was not to be. One of Garry’s favourite moments from his career was when he guested for Poole Pirates in the 2003 Speedway Star KO Cup final and he combined with Tony Rickardsson for a 5-1. Poole went on to win with Garry being part of both meetings and receiving a winners medal.
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Famous quotes containing the word accident:
“A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a wind-mill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment,—and the thing has vanished, because it was pure effect; but it leaves a relish behind it, a longing that the accident may happen again.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
“Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference.”
—Shirley Chisholm (b. 1924)
“We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)