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Monday night when I was driving to work at 9:30 I came upon what I thought was a dead moose in the middle of the road. I swung out into the other lane at the last second to avoid hitting it when my eye caught something white.....it was a sneaker. As the shock that this was a human being in the road sunk in I quickly parked my car and hopped out to help. 2 people were parked up the road running down to me and yelled out and asked me to call 911 if I had a cell phone...I did. I will never forget walking up in the darkness to the person in the road....I thought for sure he was dead. Then as I got closer I could hear him gurgling on blood and my own blood ran cold. As I was standing over the person and talking to the 911 dispatcher I saw a large dark puddle starting to pour out of the back of the person's head. I knew then just how bad the situation was.
He was riding a motorcycle, one of the fast sporty ninja type bikes....no helmet. His bike was 30 feet up the road from him, totally smashed up. There was glass and pieces of bike everywhere. His keys were thrown out of his pocket, as were his cigarrettes, the baseball hat he'd been wearing was about 10/15 feet south of him. He kept going in and out of consciousness but when he was "awake" he wasn't responsive and I can only describe the look in his eyes as the look of death. I knelt down beside him and tried to stop some of the blood and to keep him still as he was becoming somewhat combative ( the EMTs said that this is common in serious head wounds). It was dark but as I was trying to tend to him I saw that his scalp was open and it was either a large piece of his scalp hanging or it was his brain....part of me doesn't really want to know. When the ambulance finally got there they took him to the local hospital and then finally took him by lifeflight to the nearest city because his wounds were so serious. Now he is in serious condition with bad head injuries.
The police at first thought he had hit a bear but it was later determined that he had hit a moose. Seeing his injuries up close I strongly feel that he still would have been injured if he had been wearing a helmet but he would have been able to get up and walk away. I am positve of it.
So, my point.....if you ride a motorcycle please please PLEASE wear a helmet. I know some people think they are a pain in the butt or that they dont look cool or that they get in the way...or even mess up your hair. But after spending over 20 mins caring for this man...his blood getting all over me...seeing the look in his eyes...learning that he has 3 kids from somebody that knows him... I beg you all to care more about your lives and your loved ones than vanity. Please ALWAYS wear a helmet, no matter what. They really do save lives.
He was riding a motorcycle, one of the fast sporty ninja type bikes....no helmet. His bike was 30 feet up the road from him, totally smashed up. There was glass and pieces of bike everywhere. His keys were thrown out of his pocket, as were his cigarrettes, the baseball hat he'd been wearing was about 10/15 feet south of him. He kept going in and out of consciousness but when he was "awake" he wasn't responsive and I can only describe the look in his eyes as the look of death. I knelt down beside him and tried to stop some of the blood and to keep him still as he was becoming somewhat combative ( the EMTs said that this is common in serious head wounds). It was dark but as I was trying to tend to him I saw that his scalp was open and it was either a large piece of his scalp hanging or it was his brain....part of me doesn't really want to know. When the ambulance finally got there they took him to the local hospital and then finally took him by lifeflight to the nearest city because his wounds were so serious. Now he is in serious condition with bad head injuries.
The police at first thought he had hit a bear but it was later determined that he had hit a moose. Seeing his injuries up close I strongly feel that he still would have been injured if he had been wearing a helmet but he would have been able to get up and walk away. I am positve of it.
So, my point.....if you ride a motorcycle please please PLEASE wear a helmet. I know some people think they are a pain in the butt or that they dont look cool or that they get in the way...or even mess up your hair. But after spending over 20 mins caring for this man...his blood getting all over me...seeing the look in his eyes...learning that he has 3 kids from somebody that knows him... I beg you all to care more about your lives and your loved ones than vanity. Please ALWAYS wear a helmet, no matter what. They really do save lives.
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