Scary Mary Perkins knocked out

Tauranga freestyle motocross rider "Scary" Mary Perkins crashed off her bike and was knocked unconscious for 15 minutes on Saturday night as team-mates landed their bikes just centimetres from her.
Horrified family and fans, including Ms Perkins' parents from Hastings, watched as she crashed on landing after a jump went wrong and remained motionless on the dirt, her bike beside her.
One rider was already in the air when the accident happened and without vision over the ramp, had just seconds to make safe passage between the rider and her bike to avoid a collision.
Spectators and commentators marvelled at the skill and cool heads as another rider also skirted the narrow gap of about 30cm.
Still unconscious, Ms Perkins was then carried away on a stretcher wearing a neck brace.
The first and so far only female member of the internationally known Crusty Demons, Ms Perkins, told the Bay of Plenty Times this morning she felt "pretty gross".
Speaking from her Waikato Hospital bed and sounding weary, she said she had a "pretty sore" ankle still but no broken bones.
She cannot remember much of what happened during what was to be one of the last jumps of the show, during the last performance of the Kiwi Carnage Tour.
"The last thing I remember is going for the jump. Then nothing really," she said.
"Everything was going well as far as I knew."
Ms Perkins has previously told the Bay of Plenty Times pain "lets you know you're alive" during the risky shows.
"You need luck but it's the nature of the sport that you'll end up hurt at some stage. You always rely on the adrenalin to kick in and the pain goes away."
Just weeks ago she dislocated her thumb but nudged it back into place, wrapped it and continued riding.
The 24-year-old hoped to come home to Tauranga today or tomorrow, for some time to recover.
Ms Perkins still planned to head to the United States in about six weeks, to perform as a freestyle motocross rider there.
Her boyfriend of four months, Joel Wanhill, was watching the show, close to the riders when the accident happened.
"It was right at the end and probably the last jump of the entire show," he said today.
"Something must have gone wrong in the run-up and she just gave it a bit too much."
Two more riders on the jump "managed to miss her by just a little bit", he said.
"I was pretty concerned actually. She was fully knocked out."
The paramedics ran on and took her helmet off and soon after rushed her to hospital in an ambulance.
Mr Wanhill said her parents came to hospital, worried but philosophical: "They've experienced it a bit before".
Ms Perkins' mother stayed overnight on Saturday, while Mr Wanhill slept at the hospital last night.
"It was quite bad and quite a hard fall but she's doing pretty good," he said.
Ms Perkins' brother Lawrence Perkins, the promoter for this weekend's Freestyle Sports Open in Tauranga, was at home when he heard of the accident.
He had spoken to friends on Saturday night and Mr Wanhill several times since.
"She's not broken in any way, I mean no broken bones," he said.
"She's been knocked out a few times, as with all racers, but I was reasonably concerned at the time it took her to come around."
He said his parents knew there were risks that came with motocross.
"I've broken my back and been knocked out and in a coma for three weeks. They're used to it," he said.