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1. My scooter is an Italian scooter - a Piaggio. Windows does not recognise this word. What is one of the words that Windows spellchecker tries to persuade me I meant to write?
2. Another popular Italian scooter make is Vespa - what does this mean in Italian?
3. As I lay in the road after being hit by a car while on my scooter, the attending police and ambulance men wouldn't let me take my helmet off and I was strapped to a 'spinal board' before they'd remove my helmet. Why was that?
4. I'm one of those weird people that name my cars etc. My blue Piaggio Skipper naturally lent itself to being called after this Australian marsupial - who actually had his own TV series from 1966 to 1968 - with many, many repeats. So I call my scooter 'Skippy'. What was Skippy?
5. As I was able to walk after my accident, the doctors declined the chance to use Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery to look at my foot. What DIDN'T they use?
6. If I had broken a bone in my foot, I would have been in very good company. Which England football star sent the press into a frenzy by fracturing his second metatarsal on 10 April 2002, just before the World Cup?
7. At least the lady who knocked me off stayed to give her details - unlike the person who hit my car last year and drove off. What is that type of collision known as?
8. Although my motorcycle helmet hit the road hard, and it has a little crack in it, it'll be okay to use on my scooter again, won't it?
9. Although I wasn't badly injured in the accident, I suspect that I stretched and tore some of the soft tissues in my neck (tendons, ligaments and muscles). What is this type of injury NOT known as?
10. As to the title of this quiz - 'Just another RTA'. I was hit by a car on my scooter. What does the acronym RTA stand for in this situation?
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