Jay Leno Reveals He Broke Bones in Motorcycle Crash Earlier This Month (2024)

• Jay Leno broke several bones in a motorcycle crash earlier this month, as revealed in an interview with the comedian yesterday by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
• Leno said he was riding a vintage 1940 Indian motorcycle when he got unexpectedly clotheslined in a parking lot and knocked off the bike.
• The accident happened not long after Leno was seriously burned by a car fire in November.

Jay Leno has been a lucky man, spending years as a successful late-night talk-show host and stand-up comedian as well as focusing on his passion as an automotive enthusiast and hosting his own related TV show. Unfortunately, Leno has run into a string of bad luck of late, including two bad accidents that have sent him to the hospital. The most recent incident, he revealed in an interview, happened on January 17 when he crashed a vintage motorcycle and broke several bones.

Leno yesterday spoke to the Las Vegas Review-Journal and confirmed that he was okay. The 72-year-old also shared the story of the crash, which he said happened while he was riding a 1940 Indian motorcycle.

"So 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," Leno told the Review-Journal. "So, you know, I didn't see it until it was too late. It just clotheslined me and, boom, knocked me off the bike."

This video from the popular Jay Leno's Garage series features Leno showing his 1940 Indian Four with a sidecar—"a good old girl," as Leno called it—which may or may not be the bike on which he had the accident, but which is part of his extensive vehicle collection.

The motorcycle crash comes only a couple of months after Leno was seriously burned by a car. That incident, too, involved a vintage vehicle—a 1907 White Model G steam car. Leno was released from the hospital in late November after a 10-day stay and said at that time that he would continue outpatient treatment to recover from burns.

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