Remember When Ozzy Osbourne Almost Died in a Crash on a Yamaha Banshee ATV?

Ozzy Osbourne is famous for, among other things, coming back from near-death experiences.

The Prince of Darkness died one last, final time though, reported dead on July 22, 2025.

One of the times he nearly died in 2003 happened on his old Yamaha Banshee, an ATV with a reputation for being extremely fast, even by today's standards, and quite dangerous.

"They have so much power and such a violent powerband they flat out rip," one commenter in a thread on the ATV Rider forum said back in 2009, three years after Banshees went out of production.

Osbourne found that out firsthand.

He cracked a vertebrae, broke his collarbone and broke eight ribs, according to UTV Driver.

To add insult to injury, his wife Sharon Osbourne wrote a note on the owner's manual: "Be safe." 

Osbourne ended up selling the 1996 Banshee at auction in 2007. It sold again in 2022 for just under $13,000.

We know it was Osbourne's personal Banshee sold in 2022 because it had the dent he put in the front end as well as cracked rear wings and the original owner's manual with his wife's note.

Osbourne recalled the crash in an interview with Graham Bensinger. It's difficult to understand all Osbourne said about the crash, but he said it happened while filming his family's reality TV show on MTV, The Osbournes, which aired from 2002 through 2005.

"I got on my quad-bike," he said. "I'd gone down an embankment, which I'd done every day, and the bike went up in the air, landed on me. And the next minute I know I was in hospital."

Sharon Osbourne in the interview said she got a phone call when the accident happened while she was in America.

Sharon Osbourne sits next to her husband Ozzy's Quad Bike (upon which he had his life-threatening accident) ahead of a two-day auction.

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She said her husband had been rescued, on another ATV, by his security team, who then drove him to the hospital despite the fact that a helicopter had been dispatched by emergency services to their home in the English countryside.

Osbourne's injuries were so serious doctors put him in an induced coma for eight days, she added.

"Literally the first time I saw Ozzy, he was in a ward full of people that were in comas, and you know, tubes and bottles coming out of everywhere, you know," she said. "One side of him there was a bottle of blood where he was dripping, the other it's full of pee. And I'm just like, this is a nightmare, I'm going to wake up in a minute."

Her husband was quite a bit more up-beat retelling the story.

"I was in and out in no time," he said. "I checked myself out of hospital. I had a nurse for about a week and then I was back on my feet again."

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