Jay Leno breaks collarbone and ribs in motorbike crash 2 months after struggling burns in storage fireplace

Two months after present process surgical procedure for critical burns, Jay Leno is now contending with a lot of damaged bones after being knocked off a motorbike.

The comic and former “Tonight Show” host told a Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Thursday that he broke his collarbone and two ribs and cracked his kneecaps on Jan. 17.

The November storage fireplace and January wreck each stemmed from his ardour for engaged on classic automobiles. He suffered burns on his face, arms and chest in a gasoline fireplace whereas repairing the gasoline line on a classic automotive. Last week, it was a classic motorbike.

He instructed the Review-Journal’s John Katsilometes he was testing a 1940 motorbike when he seen the scent of leaking fuel.

“So I turned down a facet road and minimize via a car parking zone, and unbeknownst to me, some man had a wire strung throughout the car parking zone however with no flag hanging from it,” Leno, 72, mentioned. “So, you already know, I did not see it till it was too late.”

He insisted he was OK and would even be working this weekend, including that the extraordinary protection of the November fireplace made him reluctant to say something within the days since final week’s accident.

Leno took over NBC’s “Tonight” when longtime host Johnny Carson retired in 1992. He was succeeded by Conan O’Brien in 2009, however NBC received chilly toes when the present’s rankings dropped and introduced Leno again as host in 2010. He remained within the job till Jimmy Fallon took over in 2014.

Leno turned his love of automobiles right into a CNBC collection, “Jay Leno’s Garage,” and hosts a revival of the sport present “You Bet Your Life.”

He was hospitalized for 9 days after the hearth however was again performing stand-up at a Southern California membership six days after his launch, People reported final yr.