Dan Walker bike accident: Helmet saved my life, says TV star

TV presenter Dan Walker has said wearing a helmet saved his beingness successful a bicycle clang successful Sheffield.

Mr Walker, 45, said helium was deed by a car portion cycling connected Monday, leaving him "battered and bruised".

The Channel 5 presenter, who utilized to enactment connected BBC Breakfast, was taken to infirmary and was "amazed" to person not breached immoderate bones.

"The helmet I was wearing saved my beingness contiguous truthful - if you're connected a motorcycle - get 1 connected your head," helium tweeted.

Mr Walker posted photos from wrong a Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) conveyance alongside 2 members of staff, aft the incidental connected Moore Street successful Sheffield metropolis centre connected Monday morning.

He said helium had been "blown distant by each the beauteous messages" helium had received.

"Very thankful to inactive beryllium here. I person nary representation of thing and conscionable retrieve coming circular connected the tarmac with paramedics & constabulary astir me," helium wrote connected Twitter.

"Smashed my ticker & phone, ruined my trousers, my motorcycle is simply a messiness but I'm inactive here," helium added.

He said helium would beryllium drinking nutrient done a straw pursuing the crash, and thanked the NHS unit for their assistance during his ordeal.

However, helium said since posting astir the clang helium had been lectured by radical telling him "bike helmets aren't important".

"The exigency services astatine the country yesterday told maine I astir apt wouldn't beryllium present if I wasn't wearing one," helium added.