Ridecamp: [RC] Death

Just want to relate a very tragic funeral that I went to today.  A forty
four year old man was killed on a pleasure ride only miles from us at a
public open space trail.  No he is not an endurance rider, but an avid
rider, hunter, outdoors type person who went out for a pleasure ride and did
not come home.  The friend he was with said they were walking, the horse
spooked at who knows what, shied off the trail rolled, the man hit is head
on the only boulder in the close vicinity and crushed his head.  Dead
instantly.  His riding partner was well trained in CPR, and said by the time
he could get to him, which was very short, there was no pulse or breathing.
I can not tell you how often I have had people tell me that they do not ride
fast like we do, they only walk, so they do not need a helmet.  The WORST
accidents locally they we have heard of have been JUST WALKING trail riders.
I could relate three more stories, of bad injuries that were walking only
trail riders, and one roper. My heart aches for the wife and seven year old
daughter that will never see their husband for father again.
The entire back of his head was crushed in and the doctors said that there
was a good possibility that if he had lived, he would be a vegetable.  The
family that I talked to were relieved that it did not end up that way.  But
how sad that MAYBE if he had a helmet on, he would be alive today. No one
can say for sure, but everyone will always wonder.
 
A sad day for sure,
Cheryl Winter


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