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<blockquote data-quote="530ktm" data-source="post: 40658" data-attributes="member: 586"><p>I posted this up in the Rider Down section as well but my friend was riding south by himself at the moment when approximately 10 other riders approached from the opposite direction. This was on a dirt road named Hoffman Road that goes right by Cuddeback Lake and up to Randsburg. It was a very dusty day around 11:00 in the morning and the group of bikes approaching my friend were on both sides of the road in a staggered formation with anywhere from 20 feet to 75 feet between each rider. One rider on the wrong side of the road came close to hitting my friend but managed to get over to the correct side of the road and I feel my friend turned around for a split second to see if the kid was okay and when he turned back around another 15 year boy was right there and they hit head on. I personally believe they all were traveling too fast for the conditions and with such dusty and low visibility conditions riders need to pay extra attention to what they are doing and stay on the correct side of trails or in this case road. The bikes front tires missed each other by inches so the main impact was with handle bars and bodies and they hit head to head. My friends brain stem was pretty much torn loose so he was gone at that moment of impact and it was not helmet failure either, it was just that his head stopped momentum so quickly that his brain ripped loose from the stem. There happened to be a lady who was a nurse camping near by and she gave him CPR for 45 minutes until the helicopters arrived but it was useless. It was a very ugly and tragic scene for everyone. The 15 year old boy survived with broken arms, ribs as well as brain damage causing him to be blind in one eye and to this day he is going through therapy. It frustrates me all the time when I see riders being reckless, careless and inconsiderate of others because they just don't seem to understand how in the blink of an eye things can go very wrong for many people.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="530ktm, post: 40658, member: 586"] I posted this up in the Rider Down section as well but my friend was riding south by himself at the moment when approximately 10 other riders approached from the opposite direction. This was on a dirt road named Hoffman Road that goes right by Cuddeback Lake and up to Randsburg. It was a very dusty day around 11:00 in the morning and the group of bikes approaching my friend were on both sides of the road in a staggered formation with anywhere from 20 feet to 75 feet between each rider. One rider on the wrong side of the road came close to hitting my friend but managed to get over to the correct side of the road and I feel my friend turned around for a split second to see if the kid was okay and when he turned back around another 15 year boy was right there and they hit head on. I personally believe they all were traveling too fast for the conditions and with such dusty and low visibility conditions riders need to pay extra attention to what they are doing and stay on the correct side of trails or in this case road. The bikes front tires missed each other by inches so the main impact was with handle bars and bodies and they hit head to head. My friends brain stem was pretty much torn loose so he was gone at that moment of impact and it was not helmet failure either, it was just that his head stopped momentum so quickly that his brain ripped loose from the stem. There happened to be a lady who was a nurse camping near by and she gave him CPR for 45 minutes until the helicopters arrived but it was useless. It was a very ugly and tragic scene for everyone. The 15 year old boy survived with broken arms, ribs as well as brain damage causing him to be blind in one eye and to this day he is going through therapy. It frustrates me all the time when I see riders being reckless, careless and inconsiderate of others because they just don't seem to understand how in the blink of an eye things can go very wrong for many people. [/QUOTE]
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