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Jay Leno Recalls Recent Car Fire Accident successful TODAY Interview
Be careful, Jay Leno!
Two months aft helium suffered burns successful a gasoline fire, the comedian revealed helium was precocious progressive successful a motorcycle accident.
When asked however he's been feeling since his November hospitalization for the burns, Leno told the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Jan. 26, "It's truthful comic you should accidental that. That was the archetypal accident. OK? Then conscionable past week, I got knocked disconnected my motorcycle. So I've got a breached collarbone. I've got 2 breached ribs. I've got 2 cracked kneecaps."
However, the former The Tonight Show host insisted that he's fine. "But I'm OK!" helium continued. "I'm OK, I'm working. I'm moving this weekend."
In presumption of what happened during the incident, Leno explained that he'd been investigating 1 of his vintage motorcycles connected Jan. 17 erstwhile helium smelled leaking gas.
"So I turned down a broadside thoroughfare and chopped done a parking lot, and unbeknownst to me, immoderate feline had a ligament strung crossed the parking batch but with nary emblem hanging from it," the 72-year-old added. "So, you know, I didn't spot it until it was excessively late. It conscionable clothesline maine and, boom, knocked maine disconnected the bike. The motorcycle kept going, and you cognize however that works out."
However, helium noted to the work that helium kept this incidental backstage due to the fact that of each the attraction astir his November accident, during which helium was hospitalized for terrible burns.
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As Leno recalled to Today's Hoda Kotb successful December, he'd been moving on a vintage conveyance successful his Los Angeles store with person Dave Killackey connected Nov. 12 erstwhile the gasoline occurrence occurred.
"It was a 1907 White Steam Car," helium said. "So, the substance enactment was clogged truthful I was underneath it. It sounded clogged and I said, 'Blow immoderate aerial done the line.' And past suddenly, boom, I got a look afloat of state and past the aviator airy jumped and my look caught connected fire. And I said to my friend, I said, 'Dave, I'm connected fire.' And Dave was like, 'OK.' And I was like, 'No, Dave, I'm connected fire.'"
Killackey past rushed implicit to assistance him, smothering the occurrence earlier calling 9-11. "I couldn't adjacent spot his face," Killackey told Today. "He downplays it all, but I'm telling you, helium was truly engulfed. I couldn't spot his face. It was a partition of fire."
While Leno was advised to go to the hospital, the Jay Leno's Garage prima told Kotb helium decided to thrust himself location archetypal and hold a night, noting his woman Mavis doesn't thrust and helium "didn't privation her stuck and not knowing what was going on."
Leno past went to the Grossman Burn Center successful Los Angeles, wherever helium was treated for burns to his face, thorax and hands. He was released from the burn center later that month.
As for whether helium has immoderate hesitation astir getting backmost to his passionateness of moving connected cars pursuing the accident?
"No," Leno told Kotb. "Did I larn from this? Of people not."
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