A motorcyclist is hospitalised in Queen Elizabeth hospital at Creve Coeur nursing multiple broken bones, cuts and bruised. He is visited by his family and friends. They ask him what happened to him. He replied that he had been riding his motorcycle on a stretch of road near Mont Lubin on a pitch black moonless night. He rounded a corner and he saw the distant glare of two motorcyclist’s headlight. Having a bit of a reputation as a daredevil he accelerated his bike and decided he was going to ride between the two motorcyclists heading his way. As he thundered for the small gap between the oncoming headlights he realised, too late, that it wasn’t two motorcyclists heading his way but a jeep. This jeep was the first and only car on the island at the time. The motorcyclist had no idea and thought motorcycles were the only form of motorised transport on the island at the time.
This story comes from the 1950s and it is a fact that the first car on the island was a jeep and did arrive on the island in the 1950s. That being the case, this story still sounds suspiciously like an urban legend. A few people claim it did occur though but who knows.
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