Sir Richard Branson has suffered “nasty” accidents after hitting a pothole and falling off his bike within the British Virgin Islands, the billionaire has revealed

The Virgin founder stated he took “fairly a giant tumble”, posting a photograph on Instagram displaying him with a bloody elbow alongside a fellow bicycle owner who additionally got here a cropper.

Sir Richard posted: “I hit a pothole and crashed arduous, leading to one other hematoma on my hip and a nasty lower elbow, however amazingly nothing damaged.

“We have been biking with Alex Wilson, who fell after me, however fortunately he was okay as properly.

“I am counting myself very fortunate, and grateful for protecting myself energetic and wholesome.

“In spite of everything, the courageous could not stay endlessly however the cautious don’t stay in any respect!”

It isn’t the primary time the 73-year-old has discovered himself with a cycling-related damage.

In 2018, the mogul thought he had damaged his again after being thrown off his bike throughout a charity race.

And in 2016, he stated he feared he would die after smashing head-first onto the street throughout a high-speed bike crash.

He was on a coaching journey together with his two grown-up youngsters on the British Virgin Islands when he flew off his bicycle.

On that event he revealed: “I used to be heading down a hill in direction of Leverick Bay when it out of the blue received actually darkish and I managed to hit a ‘sleeping policeman’ hump within the street head on.

“The subsequent factor I knew, I used to be being hurled over the handlebars and my life was actually flashing earlier than my eyes.”

After the crash he was taken to Miami for X-rays and scans, the place it was discovered that he had suffered a cracked cheek and torn ligaments.

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The billionaire claims to have counted 76 near-death experiences in his life, in line with his autobiography, starting in 1972 on his honeymoon together with his first spouse, when a fishing boat he was on sank.

He additionally beforehand crash-landed in a subject in 1976 after he by chance took off in a microlight plane he “had no concept” methods to fly.

The engine additionally exploded on the primary Virgin Atlantic take a look at flight in 1984 and, two years later, he pulled the mistaken wire skydiving and was falling by way of the air earlier than his teacher managed to tug the spare wire.

He has additionally had a number of mishaps whereas on scorching air balloons, wing-walking on a Virgin jet, and leaping off a on line casino in Las Vegas.