A UK teenager’s penis has been degloved and his scrotum ripped open in an “unusual” bike accident, which highlights the severity of handlebar injuries even at a slow pace, doctors report.

The 14-year-old Oxford boy was cycling at walking speed along a pavement, holding a drink in one hand and not wearing a helmet, when he hit a stationary car.

He was taken to the ED, with a 12cm–14cm laceration running from his left groin across the pubis to the right and 10cm inferiorly into the perineum.

“This inverted the left scrotum and partially degloved the penis,” wrote the doctors from the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.