KNIGHTS battering ram Danny Wicks has walked away from a motor vehicle accident that destroyed his scooter and severely damaged another car but left him with hardly a scratch.

The former Dragons front-rower has been ruled out of the team to play Cronulla in a pre-season trial at Cessnock on Saturday night but is lucky to be alive after the bingle at Adamstown on Monday.

"I feel like I got hit by a car," Wicks laughed yesterday as he recalled the incident to teammates at a photoshoot at EnergyAustralia Stadium.

"I had a bit of glass taken out of my elbow, and I'm just a bit sore. My scooter's a write-off and the car got towed away, but I walked away.

"The car was probably doing 40 or 50 kilometres an hour, and I was probably doing 40 or 50, and we hit head-on, and I was on a motorbike, so I definitely won't be playing on Saturday.

"The bike went into the radiator then I dented the bonnet, hit the windscreen, dented the roof, dented the boot, then landed on my feet on the tar."

Asked to compare the impact to a tackle, the 22-year-old Grafton junior said: "I know I haven't been hit that hard before."

Knights coach Brian Smith said Wicks was "sick and sore" once the adrenaline rush from the shock had worn off, and he was lucky not to be more seriously injured.

"He won't play on Saturday, as a precaution more than anything, but he's getting around OK now, which is amazing when you think of what he went through," Smith said.

"The car's been damaged from top to toe and he's walked away with a scratch on his left elbow."

Wicks had missed earlier trial games against the New Zealand Warriors and South Newcastle because of a hamstring strain but said he would be fit to play in Newcastle's NRL season-opener at home against Canberra on March 15.

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