Martin "Lucky" Larsen, originally from Varberg, was on the US East Coast for three competitions in the PBA Pro Bowling Tour when he and other players went to Virginia beach on a game-day.

- We would cross a three-lane road where the cars stood still in two of the files, but in the third file came a car at full speed that cut me properly. I landed about 15 feet away. I felt that I was in the air for a long time and had to think that this is bad, says Martin Larsen.

An ambulance was in place within five minutes and then the bowling professional was allowed to lie in hospital and then in his hotel room, instead of in the bowling alley.

Water bottles protected

Two legs in the left hand are broken, as well as a rib and a bone adjacent to the spine.

- It's really incredible that I didn't break any more in relation to what I was with, he says.

He believes the explanation is a pack of 24 water bottles he carried on his shoulder as he crossed the road.

- When I hit the bonnet I hit my head against the water bottles instead of directly against the car and I think that protected me, he says.

Aims at the US Open

Martin Larsen came home to Sweden on Friday, but no bowling game is to think about in the near future.

- It is too early to say what the consequences this will have, but the outlook still looks good. Fortunately, it was the left arm that got the bangers and I'm right-handed. But as long as I'm plastered, I can't play anyway, he says.

This means that he misses the World Tour competition on Swedish soil, Lucky Larsen Masters in Helsingborg, which is thus named after him.

"If healing and rehab goes as well as I can, I still hope for the US Open at the end of October," says Martin "Lucky" Larsen.