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February 25, 2007

Ewan McGregor breaks leg in bike crash

Ewan McGregor has broken his leg in a motorbike smash, The Sunday Mail reports.

The daredevil Scot came off his high-powered bike while taking it for a spin near his London home.

McGregor, 35, has been hobbling around with a plaster cast but is hoping to recover fully for his planned motorbike trip from John O'Groats to Cape Town in South Africa this summer.

In an interview for Comic Relief, the Star Wars actor told Edinburgh's Fresh Air Radio DJ Tim Johns how he was hurt when he spilled off his bike.

He said:

"I just had a freak traffic accident on my bike and had a little fall off, yeah.

"It hasn't put me off bikes at all."

"If you are going to ride bikes, you are going to have accidents from time to time. So it was unfortunate."

Last night, McGregor's mum Carol, from Crieff, Perthshire, said:

"It's true. Ewan has had an accident on his motorbike and has broken his leg.

"The accident happened in London but that's all I can really tell you about it."

"Ewan is managing to hobble around on crutches perfectly well and he feels OK."

"I'm sure he will be fine for his motorbike trip in the summer and he is very much looking forward to it."

It is the second time McGregor has come off a motorbike. He escaped serious injury seven years ago when a 190mph superbike he was riding on loan, skidded on diesel near Inverness.

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