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Do you still remember simple summer safety?
Posted by
JLoFriday, August 27, 2010
At about 10:45 last night, I'm winding down watching some TV when I hear this loud crash noise.
I immediately look out my bedroom window, run downstairs out the front door, and to the corner. I see a teenager laying in the street. Luckily he was concious but then I noticed blood on his head. He tried to move and so our conversation was something along the lines of:
Me: "Buddy, do not move! Can you feel everything?"
Him: "Yea. I'm okay just this blood on my head and I think I broke my finger. Um mamm, can you please find my longboard?"
Me: "Sure."
Him reaching for his cell phone: "I'm just going to call my friend I was supposed to meet."
Me: "Why don't you call your parents first!"
As we were talking, I noticed a motorcycle laying in the road and another person about 30 yards away. This 18-year-old boy on his longboard (like a skateboard) and a man on a motorcycle collided. (I later read in the newspaper the man on the motorcycle was driving under the influence.)
Now unfortunately, I hear loud noises and see crashes more often than I'd like near where I live, so it didn't come as a surprise to me. My entire life I have lived in this same house on this same pretty dangerous corner. I've seen everything from fender benders to a young kid on a bicycle being hit and pinned underneath a car.
Scary? Oh yea.
What got me most though, was this was the first time I actually went outside and thought of something more than to just call 911. The guy on the motorcycle was wearing his helmet, but the 18-year-old was not.
As we said in our video newsletter earlier this summer, you might think you look cool either not wearing a helmet or wearing it the wrong way, but you sure won't be protected.
Once cops and ambulances came, I walked back over to my house and stood there for a few minutes looking at the scene. I didn't ask any further, but it appears, both of the individuals were pretty much okay. They got off lucky, because as we know, this isn't always the case.
So I urge you, as the last weeks of summer are upon us, do not forget our simple summer safety tips. And share the tips with your friends, too.
Watch the video.
Read the summer safety checklist.
Janelle
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