I went "over the bars" twice. Once I was passenger on a motorbike and I flew over the car we hit. The other time I was driving the motorbike and I did brake until the very end, thinking "oh shit, won't do": I stood up on the bike, while still braking. And flew over the car again. Waking up in the ambulance, temporarily blind, not knowing which year it was nor if I had a wife or not, wasn't cool. It took I'd say easily 15 minutes before I could see again: I started regaining sight in the hospital although I clearly remember paramedics talking to me in the ambulance.

I'm very lucky, in both cases, I didn't hit anything but the road. Especially not the car.

I still rode MX bike on tracks for a while then eventually quite entirely.

Now I've got a mountain bike and it's scary enough already!