The rush to get cheap petrol has landed one Perth man in hospital.

Motorcyclist Troy Thickpenny thought he would be killed when a driver made a mad dash across an intersection in South Lake clogged with drivers waiting to fill their tanks on Monday night.

The 32-year-old motorcyclist slammed into a Holden Commodore.

“There was traffic everywhere and I was just travelling along and a young driver just pulled out in front of me, just trying to make a mad dash,” he said.

The Aubin Grove engineer does not think the driver could see because the intersection was blocked by long queues of cars trying to get into a United service station.

It is a problem that is becoming more common in Perth. The crash occurred on a Monday night —the cheapest day of the fuel cycle.

Mr Thickpenny said the event had left him and and his family traumatised. It has only been five months since the death of his brother and Mr Thickpenny’s mother would not have coped with losing a second son.

Mr Thickpenny is missing skin all over his body.

But somehow, even after hitting the car door at 60km/h, he only broke one rib.

Mr Thickpenny has a message for drivers who line up on the road for cheap fuel on Mondays:

“You're only saving $2 or $3 in fuel ... I just don't see the point in all the chaos.”