Rapper thought ‘I’m dying’ as he lay in road after crash
RAPPER Bugzy Malone has spoken out about the moments that led up to the crash that left him fighting for his life.
The 29-year-old star was riding a three-wheel bike on Rochdale Road in Bury when it was involved in a smash with a car.
Bugzy – real name Aaron Davis – was taken to hospital with serious injuries following the crash at around 9.20pm on March 25 last year.
The musician, who is understood to have recently been living in Ramsbottom, says he was ‘speeding about to entertain’ fans who caught his attention in the moments before the crash.
The grime star told hosts of the Spotify original podcast, Who We Be TALKS_: “I was out and about, just floating about. At first, I saw a car with some guys, and they were like ‘Bugz!’ and I’m like ‘yo!’, entertaining them and that. I needed to turn left, but they were going straight.
“See, I don’t feel like a famous person. But when you’re in a situation like that, and you’re meant to be a famous person, you can either get on with your day and be like ‘safe, boys’ or entertain them a bit because you know that will make their day.
“So I’m like flying about, past their car, so they’re buzzing, they’re snapchatting me, they have something to talk about.
“About 10-15 minutes after that, I’m just riding normally now, and a car just pulled out, and it came out slow and hard stopped.
“I knew there was no stopping, I knew I had to crash. I’ve crashed bare times. I’m thinking ‘no!’
“And I’m on a bike - it’s not a buggy or a car. I’m coming off, and I’ve tried to go round him, and I hit it.
“By then, I was knocked out and then woke up, and I’m on the floor, and people are like, ‘you all right mate?,’ and I’m splashed, I’m bleeding.
“Knocked out, woke up, then you think, ‘ah, I’ve crashed’. When you’ve been through traumatic events in your life, you’re used to the pattern.”
Bugzy says he thought he was ‘bleeding out’’. He thought ‘I’m dying’ as witnesses were telling him ‘stay with us’.
“I remember just wiggling my legs to see if I’d broken my back. And I thought, OK, my legs are moving so my back isn’t broken,” Bugzy said.
“Then I look at the blood that was just spreading around my head and I think, ‘ah, no, I’m bleeding out.’
“I tried to jump up, but I snapped my knee cap in half so I fell back down. I can’t move and then people are trying to talk to you like, ‘stay with us.’ When people talk like that you’re thinking, ‘I’m dying.’
“So you’re just like, ‘OK, cool,’ and then you have to accept these things.
“Me, I’m big into the law of attraction. So, I believe that if you can see it in your head, exactly the way it’s going to be, then that’s how it’s going to be.
“Then when you’re in that situation, you’re not sure, because it’s happening. And then I just remember the ambulance getting there, that took about 15 minutes.”
Speaking about his road to recovery, the musician says doctors told him that ‘95 out of 100 people who have had the same head injury’ are ‘never the same again’.
But they have since been ‘shocked’ by his progress. Bugzy said: “The minute I could walk again, I started sparring just because I needed to have that under my belt. The doctors were always shocked at how quickly I was recovering, walking again normal, things like that.
“I had a suspicion when I was on the floor, that this was just part of my journey.”
On the night of the crash, a man who called the emergency services said he thought Bugzy was dead.
Hasnain Mahmood, from Bury, who was with his brothers when they witnessed the aftermath of the crash, said: “We jumped out, we thought he was dead. We called emergency services. I was saying don’t touch him.
“I couldn’t believe what my eyes were seeing. I have never witnessed something like that in my life.”
“I can’t move and then people are trying to talk to you like ‘stay with us’”