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posted July 29, 2002 07:28 AM
Terrible News - Our buddy needs your prayers
Our friend went down in Chicago this weekend and his wife may not make it!!!! Need some prayers!!!
Our riding group (Rocket Riders) make a weekend ride to Chicago every year. Saturday morning all the guys met at our house for the ride. About 18 bikes. KZZ1 decided not to go because he wanted to stay home with me.
They got to Chicago and planned on riding in town so all of them shed the gear and their buckets at the hotel and went crusin' downtown. They met up with a friend driving a SUV and the plan was to take some city roads (No highways) to an area were sportbikes hang out. Well, the guy's all said that they wanted to go back to the hotel to get their helmets if they were gonna be riding on any highways. The driver of the SUV said that he would take them thru town.
Well, that did not happen.....No blame to the SUV driver. The guy's should have kept their buckets!!!!
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posted July 29, 2002 07:28 AM
 Edited By: ZX12Girl on 30 Jul 2002 10:12
They headed out and before they knew it they were on the on-ramp of the highway... The highway was pretty busy.... They were trying to follow the SUV, traveling at about 55mph...Then a car shoots off an on-ramp, cut's over two lanes and then cut off the SUV. The SUV had to slam on their brakes and they started to skid...Our buddy riding a Busa was right behind the SUV...He started breaking hard and the back tire started sliding. This sliding bucked off his wife who was on the back of the bike. She went flying off the bike and down the highway...When she flew off, it put him out of balance and the bike went into a slide.
She flew directly into traffic and worse then that...directly into the lane with all of the sportbikes (our group)....The guy's were all trying to miss her as she, our buddy and the bike were all sliding at them. The guys shot out every way that they could but it left our good friend with no where to go. He tried to miss everything coming at him but could not miss our buddy's wife who was right in front of him....... The guy's said that she was rolling down the highway like a ragdoll...................He hit her shoulder but was able to keep it up and not crash. This caused a chain reaction behind them and they could hear cars slamming brakes and crashing into each other behind them....
The guys (All the Sportbikes) pulled over and started helping our buddy and his wife on the Busa. Two of our friends are Fireman so they ran over to help our buddy's wife. She is in really bad shape....At that point, she was not breathing so Walter got her tongue out of the way so that she could breathe!!! Thank God for Walter being there and his quick action!!!
There was a stream of blood coming from her head and had some chunks missing... They were taken to the hospital...
We got the call about midnight and immediately jumped in the car and headed down to see them. At the hospital we found our buddy to be pretty lucky...He only had a broken collar bone, stitches in his head and some road rash. His wife is in Critical condition.................
She has massive head trauma and is still "sleeping". She has a broken leg, arm. Pelvic bone, collar bone........A neck injury and massive road rash..... They said that one of four things can come from this -
#1 - she could wake up and be ok...just broken bones (best case) and a long road to recovery.
#2 - she could be partially paralyzed from the neck injury.
#3 - Partial or massive permanent brain damage
#4 - Severe Brain damage or Not wake up at all.
The good thing is that she is breathing on her own. But other than that, she is lifeless..... Our riding group is all screwed up..... The guy that hit her is not taking it very well. He feels horrible...He wishes that he could have wrecked himself other than hit her. Our buddy on the Busa was released last night and he is for the most part OK...but he is emotional screwed up about his wife!!!!!
They could all use your prayers...... ....
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posted July 29, 2002 07:42 AM
I don't even know what to say Angie. That is just terrible news. I will pray for everyone and hope she makes it out of this ok. Were the Gixxer boys there? Please tell everyone I'm thinking about them.
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posted July 29, 2002 07:56 AM
They are in our prayers,..... God Bless em.
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posted July 29, 2002 08:10 AM
Man that is one sad situation. There are so many things in life to enjoy. Please everyone be careful as possible out there.
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posted July 29, 2002 08:14 AM
Our buddy and his wife only own property (self employed)...They did not have health insurance...The only insurance that they had was the Bike insurance... They are screwed!!!!!
Please Read this -
#1 - DO NOT RIDE WITH-OUT YOUR HELMET
#2 - IF YOU HAVE SOME ONE ONE THE BACK - MAKE THEM HOLD ON TO YOU We think that she was only holding onto the bar on the back.
#3 - Check your policy and see if you are covered so you will not have to worry about this in a terrible time.
#4 - NEVER RIDE WITH_OUT YOUR HELMET....NEVER.....NEVER
Please be safe guy's and WEAR YOUR GEAR!!!!!!!!
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posted July 29, 2002 08:18 AM
My prayers are with them.....
I have seen something called a buddy belt... I think there are mainly for children but may be something to consider.. May not look cool but if they work.... Looks like a weight lifting belt with handles on each side.... God Bless...
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posted July 29, 2002 08:23 AM
shit... no words .. 
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posted July 29, 2002 08:33 AM
That's horrible for everyone involved. I'm sure her husband will have lasting effects for quite a while as will the man who hit her.
I don't want to start a thread, but it makes me wonder (again) why bad things happen to good people.
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posted July 29, 2002 08:36 AM
So sad......
This is terrible news ,they will definitely be in my prayers.
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posted July 29, 2002 08:39 AM
Hopefully it will all turn out okay. We all know about safety equipment, occurances like these just validate what we already know. This is a horrable way to have to learn that lesson.
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posted July 29, 2002 08:40 AM
What an incredibly shitting thing to happen.
Let us know how things proceed.
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posted July 29, 2002 08:46 AM
Very sad news Angi. I wish her well.
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posted July 29, 2002 08:58 AM
I'm sorry to hear about that, I wish her well.
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posted July 29, 2002 08:59 AM
I am very sorry to hear about this...my heart and prayers go out to all of you.
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posted July 29, 2002 09:06 AM
I will say a prayer. Positive thoughts are all I'm thinking.
Be Safe all!
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posted July 29, 2002 09:27 AM
my prayers and thoughts are with the family and friends! god bless
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posted July 29, 2002 09:33 AM
our prayers and thoughts go out to them.
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posted July 29, 2002 09:38 AM
Thoughts and prayers from here in Daytona. Hope for the best.
Thanks for posting what had to be a hard story to write. You can never have enough reminders to play it safe.
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posted July 29, 2002 09:45 AM
I heard about that accident on the news......very sorry, and your friends are in my prayers
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posted July 29, 2002 10:10 AM
Your friends are in my prayers.
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posted July 29, 2002 10:20 AM
Friends,
I am a minister serving just north of Chicago at Evanston Bible Fellowship (Evangelical Free). I would love to go to the hospital and visit this couple and offer them some hope and some much needed prayer support. Please call me or email if you have any information on which hospital they are in. I am trained in theology and counseling in crisis---my heart goes out to them.
Office 847-328-5858
Home 847-475-2029
email d_murray@ebf-church.org
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posted July 29, 2002 11:15 AM
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Were the Gixxer boys there? Please tell everyone I'm thinking about them.
Yeap, 2 of them - Jason and Brad!!! The whole group is pretty screwed up right now.
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posted July 29, 2002 11:15 AM
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I'll call you in a little bit Derrek...Thanks so much for the offer!
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posted July 29, 2002 11:29 AM
I don't know what to say. This is terrible news. Please accept my thoughts and prayers.
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