Greg Johnson walks with a limp, part of the aftereffects of what happened to him the morning of June 18, 2022. An avid bicyclist, he was en route to Golden Gate Canyon for one of his long weekend rides. The ride followed his usual commute on a bike from Wheat Ridge to Denver International Airport and back for work most days.
But that morning was different. He was struck from behind on 32nd Avenue in Golden by a car and went tumbling over it, taking out a side mirror on the way. He didn’t wake up until he was in a hospital.
“Twenty-plus broken bones. The right femur was shattered into 40 pieces. Right hip was crushed,” he listed as some of his injuries. He is full of new parts installed. A back surgery went poorly and he had to have it redone in February. It has been a tribute to his fitness and determination that he has gotten back on a bike. But a 20-to-30-mile slow ride is tops. It hurts to much with all the screws in wrong places he shares…