One of my very best longtime friends was involved in a freak accident at my home on Memorial Day while riding his quad.
He was riding his 4wd quad with his grandson, not going very fast, maybe 15mph, because his grandson was on a little quad behind him. He has a plow that was poorly jerry-rigged on the front and it unexpectedly dropped and dug into the dirt causeing the quad to stop on a dime. He was thrown over the handlebars and face first into the ground. I was the first on-scene with another friend who cleared dirt from his mouth so he could breath. It was not a pretty scene. I and stayed with him in the woods till the EMT's arrived. He broke his neck and several vertabrae and could feel nothing from head down. They airlifted him to Robert Johnson Trauma Unit.
He goes into surgury tonight. He can now move his legs a bit and one arm, the other nothing. Docs say the surgery on the spine should fix that. That's all I know right now.
I ask that you keep him in mind, pray if you can, and when your out there riding, please be careful. It does not take much. I spent 45 minutes alone with him in the woods, keeping him awake and telling him it was gonna be ok waiting for the medics. I tell you it felt like 3 hours and I still see his face now whenever I think about him. What do you say to someone...a best friend, who just keeps telling you they can't feel anything? I just want him to be better.
This is a seasoned motorcyle Enduro racer of 30 years experience. If it can happen to him, it can happen to anybody. The last person I would expect...15MPH is all it took.
Please be careful folks.
He was riding his 4wd quad with his grandson, not going very fast, maybe 15mph, because his grandson was on a little quad behind him. He has a plow that was poorly jerry-rigged on the front and it unexpectedly dropped and dug into the dirt causeing the quad to stop on a dime. He was thrown over the handlebars and face first into the ground. I was the first on-scene with another friend who cleared dirt from his mouth so he could breath. It was not a pretty scene. I and stayed with him in the woods till the EMT's arrived. He broke his neck and several vertabrae and could feel nothing from head down. They airlifted him to Robert Johnson Trauma Unit.
He goes into surgury tonight. He can now move his legs a bit and one arm, the other nothing. Docs say the surgery on the spine should fix that. That's all I know right now.
I ask that you keep him in mind, pray if you can, and when your out there riding, please be careful. It does not take much. I spent 45 minutes alone with him in the woods, keeping him awake and telling him it was gonna be ok waiting for the medics. I tell you it felt like 3 hours and I still see his face now whenever I think about him. What do you say to someone...a best friend, who just keeps telling you they can't feel anything? I just want him to be better.
This is a seasoned motorcyle Enduro racer of 30 years experience. If it can happen to him, it can happen to anybody. The last person I would expect...15MPH is all it took.
Please be careful folks.
