If you’ve never been in a motorcycle accident, it’s impossible to know exactly how it feels. Different people report experiencing an accident differently. Some say that everything happened in slow motion, just like it does in the movies. Others can hardly remember what happened at all, given that it went by so fast. The human mind and the human body have different ways of reacting to trauma. Keeping Your Broken Limbs Still For some people, the pain after a motorcycle accident is excruciating while for others, adrenalin kicks in, preventing.