A biker from the Czech Republic woke up from a racing accident speaking fluent English, a language he had never spoken before.

Matej Kus, who rides for a racing team in Prague, was knocked out cold when a competitor ran over his head riding for the Berwick Bandits in Glasgow.

After regaining consiousness, he asked paramedics what happened in English, and speaking without any accent. For about 48 hours following his accident, he lost all memory of who he was. But as soon as he regained his memory, he lost his ability to speak English.

He apparently suffered from an extremely rare case of "Foreign Accent Syndrome", which is caused by trauma to a part of the brain that controls speech.

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