08-27-2006
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Formula Extreme Favorite Bike: 02 Sprint RS
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Abbotsford B.C. Canada
Posts: 414 Other Motorcycle: klr 650 (sold to slow) Extra Motorcycle: I wish
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Richard the guy in nelson" tbs" who hung out with the piper and got on stage and sang
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(Please post for the Triumph guys whom I do not have email address for)
>
> Hi,
> this is just to let you all know that Richard Fenner was involved in a
> serious motorcycle accident on Friday 25th August at approximately 5pm.
> I received a phone call from a VPD officer to come down to VGH Emergency
> where Richard was being attended to and had given them my phone number as
a
> contact.
> It appears that he was travelling along 41st Ave where it becomes
Southwest
> Marine Dr. when a lady in a van pulled out of a side street directly into
> his path and he 'T' boned her. The officer said that it appeared as if
> Richard had not even had time to brake. Richard has no recollection of the
> incident or impact and had lost consciousness.
> His injuries were assessed to be a broken right arm, his radius was
> fractured in two places, his pelvis is spread with a 21 mm opening at the
> front and an opening also at the back, his C1 and C2 discs in his neck are
> both cracked but not crushed and several front teeth are either knocked
out
> or broken.
> Regards his face, apart from a split lip and slightly flattened nose (not
> broken) he seems to have retained his normal good looks!!!
> Yesterday they took him into surgery and I was with him again at that time
> and he was in very good form and able to joke a little. The team of
doctors
> had decided to not to mess with his neck and spine as the spinal cord and
> canal were intact and elected to install a support cage or 'halo' around
> his head to his shoulders so the damaged discs can be given a chance to
> heal on their own. He will have to permanently wear this for up to six
> months. They were placing a steel plate in the front of his pelvis and
> steel screws in the rear in order to pull his pelvis back into shape as
> apparently the ligaments had been badly torn and damaged. His wrist was
> also having steel pins and or plates installed. The operation took most of
> yesterday afternoon and he is now on a ward and in recovery.
> I had a chance to speak with the ambulance medic who attended him at the
> scene and he says that "Richard had just used up his 'once only' lucky
card
> of life". Apparently he struck the van just behind the door 'B' post, face
> or head first. "Had he hit that post, he would most certainly have been
> killed". The impact left a 12" deep, dent in the van panel where his head
> struck and Richard then had rebounded back approximately ten feet, still
> with his bike. He has several burns on his right leg which must have been
> from the exhaust.
> He will obviously be in hospital for a while and then rehab of some kind
> for a long time.
>
> Lets all remember that this took place on a sunny dry afternoon, close
to
> home, when Richard was just 'popping' down to meet up with some pals for
> supper, as per every Friday at that time when suddenly, his life has been
> changed in the beat of a second!!!! LETS ALL RIDE SAFE and watch out for
> the 'other guy'!
>
> I will keep you all informed and updated after I visit him this morning.
He
> is in Vancouver General Hospital, at the Jim Patterson Pavillion, Ward 7A,
> room 320, bed 1.
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