Acerunner Posted April 7, 2015 Share Morning Gents, Anyone hear about the guy who almost died on the epic? Apparently he crashed and his handle bars went trough his chest? Can find anything bout this online... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractor Posted April 7, 2015 Share Faark!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NicoBoshoff Posted April 7, 2015 Share I heard about a severed Femoral from a brake lever. Guy passed, but was resuccitated by medical staff. Edited April 7, 2015 by NicoBoshoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoLefty!! Posted April 7, 2015 Share and we mocke bar ends Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Ruinaard Posted April 7, 2015 Share Wow that is scary. No more bar ends for me - like horns of a bull. The bar end thing happened to a young kid riding on his own in the Knysna forest. He didnt make it (artery in the crotch - not sure, what its called). Look at the Cedric Garcia video of him in Reunion with an OTB incident. And there are some gnarly pictures of that kid at Sun City.... It can happen very quickly and can be very difficult to assist as allegedly the person will start jerking violently as they bleed out if it is arterial. What i read you have about 2 to 3 minutes.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splat Posted April 7, 2015 Share I heard about a severed Femoral from a brake lever. Guy passed, but was resuccitated by medical staff.I heard that he is still in hospital and not in good shape. Any accurate news on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NicoBoshoff Posted April 7, 2015 Share Nothing. Just heard it from someone who heard it. BUt it sounded very bad. He "died" whilst medical staff attended to him before a doctor allegedly managed to pull the artery out from the leg and pinch it to stop the bleeding (and get blood pressure up again??? I'm not a doctor). they then managed to resuccitate him. But with that amount of blodd loss I don't know how you escape without a hypoxic brain injury. Worst is, it apparently happened during a neutral start and he just fell awkwardly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acerunner Posted April 7, 2015 Share This is what I heard 2, but this morning i heard he did not die, he's in hospital... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnarly Posted April 7, 2015 Share This is now the fourth different story I have heard. We rode passed him, 3-4k's into day one. (still on the tar just before a bridge). All I can say there was a shyte load of blood. The medics just arrived when we passed him. Must say the common story is the brake lever piecing him somewhere, groin, stomach or chest. Hope he is alright. It wasn't a pleasant sight. Also heard it was him and his partner who touch wheels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoLefty!! Posted April 7, 2015 Share The danger of being impaled by a handle bar is why I prefer bar ends like the cane creek spuds BSG and Francois Pienaar 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stringbean Posted April 7, 2015 Share The guy who hit the conctrete bridge at Grabouwe and the guy who had his femoral artery sliced by his brake leaver are 2 different accidents on the epic.The 2nd one involving his fem artery was bad and he had to be resuscitated and ended up in hospital but is ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnarly Posted April 7, 2015 Share Stringbean, any idea when the second one happened? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CogitoErgoSum Posted April 7, 2015 Share Yoh, hectic stuff. I also had to pull the brake lever from my leg when I was a laaitie. This also after I touched wheels with the neighbour's kid while racing our bmx's around the house. Just missed the femoral artery. Heal up well. All the best Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stringbean Posted April 7, 2015 Share Stringbean, any idea when the second one happened?It was day 4 or 5.The crash happened a few groups behind me but got the information from one of the Hyena's.Some of the back groups were quite disturbed passing a guy busy been resuscitated.There is no doubt if he was at home riding his normal trails he would be dead.The doctors were there in under 5 min. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warren_G Posted April 7, 2015 Share Wow that is scary. No more bar ends for me - like horns of a bull. The bar end thing happened to a young kid riding on his own in the Knysna forest. He didnt make it (artery in the crotch - not sure, what its called). Look at the Cedric Garcia video of him in Reunion with an OTB incident. And there are some gnarly pictures of that kid at Sun City.... It can happen very quickly and can be very difficult to assist as allegedly the person will start jerking violently as they bleed out if it is arterial. What i read you have about 2 to 3 minutes....Sjoe that vid is hectic!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnarly Posted April 7, 2015 Share It was day 4 or 5.The crash happened a few groups behind me but got the information from one of the Hyena's.Some of the back groups were quite disturbed passing a guy busy been resuscitated.There is no doubt if he was at home riding his normal trails he would be dead.The doctors were there in under 5 min. Any idea of what happened to the guy who crashed near the bridge? There was PLENTY bloody there as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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