Dead biker’s bone enters another rider’s thigh

BANGALORE: A road accident last Friday left Manjunath M, 32, unconscious. He woke up in hospital with a searing pain in his right thigh. An X-ray revealed a foreign body in his leg — little did the doctors know it was the bone of another man who had died in the same incident.
The freak accident occurred on August 29 at Byrasandra Katte, near Hoskote.While Manjunath fell unconscious, the head-on collision left the other biker dead.
Manjunath had a laceration in his thigh and was taken to a private hospital in Hoskote. “When I woke up, I saw my thigh was swollen. I don’t know how the accident took place,” he said. He was shifted to Hosmat Hospital the same night.
Doctors found a foreign body in Manujunath’s thigh but weren’t sure what it was. When he underwent a surgery on Saturday, doctors stumbled upon a bone. “The impact of the collision was such that a bone fragment of the dead man, measuring 13cm x 3.5cm, penetrated Manjunath’s right thigh. It damaged his skin, muscles and other soft tissues. This is the first such case we have come across in the hospital’s 20-year-old history,” said Dr Thomas Chandy, chairman and chief of orthopaedics, Hosmat Hospital.
“Manjunath had suffered no other injury. In all probability, it was the bone of the other biker that had entered his thigh,” said Dr Ajit Benedict Royan, vice-president of the hospital.
Venkatesh Murthy, 26, who was riding pillion on Manjunath’s bike, sustained a fracture in the right arm and a soft tissue injury in the right foot. An emergency surgery was conducted on him and his fractured bone was fixed using a plate and screws.