His first wife was driving behind him and it is said he was taken to a nearby home where he was tended to by a doctor.
Rumours abounded. Was it a hoax? An excuse to take time off? Had the injuries been more serious than reported? Was Dylan secretly desperately incapacitated? Maybe permanently? Or was it a cover up to conceal a drugs scandal?
“I had been in a motorcycle accident and I'd been hurt, but I recovered. Truth was that I wanted to get out of the rat race. Having children changed my life and segregated me from just about everybody and everything that was going on. Outside of my family, nothing held any real interest for me and I was seeing everything through different glasses." This is an excerpt from the indipendent. Ie – to read the full story click here.
Dylan had married Lownds, a former Playboy bunny and model in November 1965. A quiet, reserved type with no interest in celebrity or the trappings of fame, Sara presented a chance for calm domesticity, the absolute opposite of anything Dylan had so far known in his adult life.
The pair were both in relationships when they met in 1964; Sara married, Dylan tied to folk singer Joan Baez. In his autobiography, he wrote that when he first saw folk singer Baez on television, "I couldn't stop looking at her, didn't want to blink." When they actually met in the early 1960s she became a huge supporter, insisting they duet onstage,
As he went on to eclipse Baez in terms of career stature, Dylan did not return the favour. in his own way, apologise, saying he felt "very bad" about how the relationship with "Joanie" ended.
In contrast, early girlfriend Suze Rotolo was immortalised on the cover of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, the album he released in 1963. The pair had begun dating in 1961, shortly after Dylan arrived in New York. At the time she was just 17, and is said to be the inspiration for many early love songs, including Don't Think Twice, It's Alright, in which he wrote: "I once loved a woman, a child I am told, I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul."
"Right from the start I couldn't take my eyes off her," he wrote. "She was the most erotic thing I'd ever seen. She was fair skinned and golden haired, full-blooded Italian. We started talking and my head started to spin. Cupid's arrow had whistled past my ears before, but this time it hit me in the heart and the weight of it dragged me overboard." 
Dylan first met Sara Lownds in 1964. By the time they married in late 1965, she was pregnant with their first child. Tour manager Victor Maymudes was shocked when they married. "I asked him, 'Why Sara?'" his posthumous biography revealed. "'Why not Joan Baez?' Dylan responded: 'Because Sara will be there when I want her to be home, she'll be there when I want her to be there, she'll do it when I want to do it. Joan won't be there when I want her. She won't do it when I want to do it.'"
. "But later I had never met a more dedicated family man." He would walk the children to school, spend time writing or painting, visiting nearby friends. Life had become more important than art, he later explained, he had lost his hunger. Dylan wrote: "I wasn't going deeper into the darkness for anybody... my family was my light, and I was going to protect that light at all costs."
For almost a decade, Bob the artist was tamped down, in favour of Bob the family man. After several years in Woodstock, the family moved back to Greenwich Village but privacy was limited. They tried Mexico, but as Sara said to Dylan, "What the hell are we doing here?"
In total, Dylan has acknowledged one marriage, and never denied the existence of a second, to backing singer Carolyn Dennis. That marriage took place in 1986 six months after the birth of the couple's daughter, Desiree Gabrielle Dennis-Dylan.
Amazingly, the entire thing, marriage and child, was kept a secret for years. When Dylan let go of his backing singers, she returned home, and Dylan, by then embarked on the so called Never Ending Tour, is said to have rarely visited. Bob and Carolyn were never photographed together, and she filed for divorce after four years of marriage
In response to reports that Dylan was in some way lacking as a father, Carolyn once commented: "To portray Bob as hiding his daughter is just malicious and ridiculous.
Bob has been a wonderful, active father to Desiree... Bob and I kept our marriage secret for a simple reason - to give our daughter a normal childhood." Lownds and Dennis are the only wives of whom official record has been confirmed, but there is speculation of more, secret marriages and unacknowledged children.
In the early 1990s, Ruth Tyrangiel was declared a common law wife as the two had been in a relationship from 1974 to 1991, apparently overlapping his marriage to Dennis, and Dylan was forced to pay alimony. In the later 1990s, Susan Ross, a former girlfriend who later described him as a useless lover and recovering alcoholic, wrote a biography about the singer in which she claimed there were further unacknowledged marriages, including one to backing singer Clydie King, whom she claimed Dylan had secretly married and had two unacknowledged children with. Ross herself had only been admitted to his Malibu home after the pair dated for five years.
Jakob Dylan, musician and the youngest of his children with Sara Lownds, once revealed in an interview that Dylan was a loving father. "If people want to talk about Bob Dylan, I can talk about that,"
"But my dad belongs to me and four other people exclusively. I'm very protective of that." Then he relented, revealing: "Yes, he was affectionate. When I was a kid, he was a god to me for all the right reasons.
Other people have put that tag on him in some otherworldly sense. I say it as any kid who admired his dad and had a great relationship with him. He never missed a single Little League game I had. He's collected every home-run ball I ever hit. And he's still affectionate to me... maybe he doesn't want people to know that," he finished with a smile. Dylan, in his own way after all, a family man.
