In a bizarre turn of events, on the same day Brisbane Lions captain Jonathan Brown was hit by a car while cycling, the same thing happened to the North Melbourne forward.
“Yeah, it was a strange day,” Edwards told kangaroos.com.au.
“I was with Ziebes (Jack Ziebell) and Taz (Robbie Tarrant) and we’d stopped for breakfast in Port Melbourne on our way back from riding out to Sandringham and we checked Twitter and saw what had happened to Browny.
“The funny the thing is, we started talking about his accident and then how bad it would be if someone opened a car door on you as you were riding past a parked car.”
It was as if the trio had seen the future.
After their brief café stopover, they continued to ride home and cycled through Docklands.
“We were actually riding past AFL House and a car door flung open in front of me,” Edwards recalled.
“I swerved to miss it but it sort of clipped my left hand and smashed into my fingers. If I hadn’t have swerved, I would have gone straight into the door and over the top of the handlebars for sure.”
With blood oozing out of his damaged hand, Edwards had little time to remonstrate with the negligent motorist.
“I stopped about twenty metres down the road and turned back to see who’d done it. A lady got out of the passenger side and yelled at me to ‘Use the footpath!’ which was unbelievable because we were on proper road bikes.”
Shaken by the incident, Edwards’ next stop was the hospital and he wasn’t sure how bad the injury was as a nasty gash had now opened up across the top of his middle finger.
“It didn’t look pretty. I was lucky in the end because the tendon hadn’t been severed. They told me I could have been out for ten or twelve weeks if it had have,” Edwards explained.
“But all it needed was a few stitches and a bandage.”
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