Billy Connolly broken rib and injured his knee in pain

Actor and comedian Billy Connolly broken rib and injured his knee in pain after I left when his bike fell on him while filming in America.

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The accident happened as the 68-year-old was filming for a new series, Billy Connolly's Route 66, which the star qualities as well as the legendary highway trip from Chicago to Los Angeles.

Billy to the hospital where he spent a week in which the program was taken recuperating before resuming filming.

He told British newspaper The Sun: 'It was my own fault. We came to a part of Route 66 which was hard with gravel and scooped up. The camera car was in front of me and took it easily, but my bike has got three wheels and I went up and round.

'I had a thing for cruise control on the throttle and it jammed on and I slipped the clutch and the trike came over on top of me and broke my rib. I have got a rather glamorous purple patch on my knee which you will only see when I wear my kilt. I will lie about it though, God damn those Germans and their shrapnel!'