THE SIDELINES : Driver Stirling Moss Hit by Car

LONDON — Former auto racing champion Stirling Moss suffered a broken thigh when he was hit by a car today while driving a motor scooter in central London.

Doctors inserted three metal pins in the 60-year-old former Grand Prix driver’s thigh bone, publicist Linda Patterson said.

The car allegedly ran a yield sign and hit Moss, who was going 20 m.p.h.

“I have been told the recovery process will be a slow one--about six months,” Moss said in a statement.

Moss crashed at 90 m.p.h. during a race at Britain’s Goodwood track in 1962. He was dragged unconscious from his car, remained in a coma for three days and was paralyzed for six months.