had an out-of-body experience
On February 20, the TV presenter was hit by a car near his family home in Sheffield.
While being on the scene the 46-year-old had a unique ordeal.
‘I had a strange experience where I was watching myself on the floor then eventually I came back into my body,’ he told ’s TV magazine.
‘It was a sort of reset moment for me.’
At the time he shared a series of images of his bloodied and bruised face on after he was rushed from the scene in an ambulance.
‘Bit of an accident this morning. Glad to be alive after getting hit by a car on my bike,’ he wrote.
‘Face is a mess but I don’t think anything is broken. Thanks to Shaun and Jamie for sorting me out and the lovely copper at the scene.
‘This is my smiling ? Thankful for our ❤️.’
He spent 10 days recovering, before returning to his job on ’s 5 News.
He got back on the mode of transport just a month later.
‘Got back on the bike for the first time today and felt safe and secure,’ he shared on Instagram.
‘New bike, new helmet… just disappointed I didn’t manage to match the socks to the frame.’
While speaking to Jeremy Vine on Channel 5, Dan explained how his 2021 Strictly Come Dancing experience helped him through the recovery.
‘So I watch some of my old dancing (videos) back and then I pause them and I was testing my brain and my body to think, ‘Does my brain know what the next move is and can my body remember it?’ And it did on every single occasion.
‘So I told Nadiya [Bychkova] that she’s helped me with my recovery from this accident, so Strictly does help even years after.’
