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Sounds like a horrible accident, and for an 80 year old man .... Best wishes, hope he gets well soon

Our thoughts and prayers are with you Sir Stirling.....

Get well Sir Stirling!

i'm confused...

got well soon and all, but am i right to assume that he walked into an open elevator shaft?

Nasty accident. Get well soon Sir Stirling.

Best wishes and get well soon Sir Stirling

Terrible accident. I hope he recovers.

Get well soon Sir Stirling!

Thats horrendous, really rare freak accident. amazing for anyone to survive nevermind an 80 yr old. All the best with your recovery Sir Stirling!

Best wishes for a speedy recovery Stirling.

Yeah it would sound like he did. Perhaps he had his head in a newspaper or something and just walked forward when the doors opened expecting to be on his floor. Easily done if you're distracted.

Easily done even if you're not distracted... When the door opens you have no reasons to double check if the cabin is there and by the time you notice you've already started your step.

Sad news indeed..

Get well soon sir.

Anywhere official we can send our wishes?

If you are on twitter you could send your messages to @StirlingMossCom

Horrendous accident, get well soon Stirling!

Typical... he breaks a load of bones, risks his life in a three-storey drop, and all he does is complain about his breakfast

Hopefully that means there was no serious damage done, other than probably hurt pride and reparable injuries.

Oh. It is very hard to recover from such injuries completely at such age. My grand-grandmother broke a leg at 80yo and then lived for the rest of her life with leg limping.

My best wishes to Sir Stirling.

Man, thats just wrong
But im so happy that he apparently is his old self:


I saw him at the Autosport show in January where he was answering questions and cracking jokes. Awesome man.

Without meaning to sound insensitive, but I am a doc, and when you 're 80 years old broken bones aren't really reparable, they 're just patched up to keep you comfortable.

Get well soon Sir Stirling!

Sounds like something out of a us soap opera.

Get well soon!!!

It is great that Sid Watkins is still his DR!

Fair point... I'm not thinking properly today.

I doubt Sir Stirling would let it affect him too much, even if he ended up in a wheelchair I expect he would still be the same friendly, approachable man he is now. However, I wouldn't like to be the one to tell him he could no longer drive...

I work on the 9th floor - must say I double checked just now when the lift opened!

Get well soon Sterling - your as tough as old boots.

Quite incredible. Half your life you race the most dangerous machines in the world... and then almost get killed using a very ordinary one which should be 99,9 percent safe...

J.

Press release: http://www.stirlingmoss.com/articles/news/...rlings-accident

Is this the famous carbon fibre lift that Patrick Head designed for him?

Oh dear, that sounds nasty for even a young person, never mind an 80 year old.

Get well soon Sir Stirling!

Just shows that Stirling has kept his fitness in check and has good fortune, just as he had at Goodwood in '62, where most would've died

Get well soon Stirling!

Wishing you a speedy recovery sir!

Get well soon Stirling.
I was proud to have been a passenger in a car that you drove around Silverstone many years ago and even then you were the perfect gentleman.

Wishing you a full and speedy recovery Sir Stirling.

Jeeebus, get well soon Stirling

Lucky for some!! That is certainly a privilege many of us here would kill for!

3 floors? He's lucky to be alive. Must be a tough old bugger. Get well soon!

Yup. See it here. if you watch how he gets into it, he steps in backwards. Maybe for the sake of the interviewer, maybe not...

Get well soon Sir Stirling

Get well soon, old man !

Oi! I hope he'll be fine soon

Ouch. Get well soon, Sir!

Get well sooon Mr. Motor Racing.

Get well soon Stirling!

This is terrible news. Sir Stirling is, without doubt, a British icon and an international treasure. I'm glad to here he's ok, talking and what have you, but a fall like that, at any age, can be incredibly dangerous.

It sounds like he's received medical attention within the day, and I imagine he pays handsomely for private healthcare, rather than NHS.

Also, going on the video link above, it seems his lift is quite confined, making it hard for him rotate in mid-air and thus land on his head, which explains the damage to his feet and ankles. I suppose that is a blessing in disguise.

Get well soon, you legend.

Get well soon Sir Stirling.

Get well soon!

I'd expect so.

Yes. Reading a bit more it seems he was waiting at the 3rd floor for the lift to arrive. The doors then opened and he, naturally, stepped forward expecting there to be a lift there. It wasn't, it was still on the 4th floor and by the time he realised he was probably already falling. It's not something you expect really, a lift to not be there when the doors open.. especially if he uses the thing on a daily basis. It's a miracle he wasn't more seriously injured.

Get well soon Stirling.

Speedy recovery. Sounds tasty.

My god , what an awfull accident

Get wel soon !

sounds like a serious design flaw.

Get well Sir Stirling.