Due to the speed of the car's impact with the tree, Jones suffered extremely serious skull, facial and eye-socket injuries, nearly lost one eye, badly broke his nose,in his inimitable way, would often later tell gullible Carlton fans — who would be hanging on his every word — that the severe scarring on his nose was the consequence of him having been bitten by a hostile horse at Flemington Racecourse when he was visiting a training stable there.</ref> and broke both of his ankles [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CUoQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XpMDAAAAIBAJ&dq=ankles&pg=6081%2C4287347 (the broken ankles were the reason he never played with Carlton Firsts against Hawthorn on wet days at the extremely muddy Glenferrie Oval).