A very sobering and disturbing reminder of the dangers of our sport. I can't stop thinking about this... One of my Son Cody's best riding/racing buddies was riding on a practice track Saturday and overshot a difficult double. He went down hard and landed face first into a berm and knocked unconscious. By the time the track owner, an EMT, arrived, he had stopped breathing due to aspirating blood. Thankfully, she was able to get him breathing again and stable. He was airlifted to a hospital in Charlotte and has been in a coma ever since. Please remember Jackson Baxter, age 15, and his family/friends in your thoughts and prayers.
MX scares the crap out of me for that very reason. Here's hoping he pulls through quickly and completely.
A terrible thing.. My prayers go out for the young man...It shows, it can happen anytime, to anyone.. Another case in point, for those that didn't already know about it from this past weekend.. http://moto-racing.speedtv.com/article/usgpru-lenz-killed-in-crash/
My riderdown prayers also go to Jackson Baxter. There is a website called riderdown.com. They offer tons of support for youngsters (even oldersters) in these offroad/mx crash-injuries.
add on note from a reprint of a post I made on local site. Very very sad indeed, our thoughts go out to all to these lads families and their competitors. As for the road racing incident, we were touched by an eerily similar event a couple years ago when KTM cup rider Toriano Wilson from Bermuda was hit and killed after a relatively minor crash. We had just met this fine young man a couple weeks prior to his crash concerning his future as a rider with us. He was full of easy going attitude and youthfull poise, to me he was a young Lewis Hamilton, a guy on his way to the top. and even Kevin Schwantz was keeping a close eye on him. We were gutted and I lost my breath when the ugly news came from VIR. Let us hope, that like during the old F1 racing danger days that safety lessons can be learned from these incidents, and that young Jackson Baxter may recover and Peter Lenz's death will help others to survive the type of incident that took him. Robert, USA Toriano connection to this, sorry for the sort of hijack, but this Lenz news hit me personally and brought back the young Wilson thing. http://bermudasun.bm...articleID=38611
Oh my, sorry to hear that Krieg. My prayers go out for him. I was in a panic mode myself this Sunday at Busco Beach watching my oldest grandson (10 years old) ride his KX65 around the MX track. Thank goodsess he didn't go down as fast as he was going. I may try and get him to ride trails more.
Krieg I assume this was at TNT. Was it the young guy Cody was riding with last weekend? I was leaving when a rider came up to the office to get help. Man I hate I left but I did have to work Saturday afternoon and assumed everything would be ok. I have kept my CPR and first aid cards current for years and would have jumped right in had I known for sure what had happened. Hopefully he will recover and I just read about the kid at Indy this past weekend. It's so sad. Thanks for the note. WR Bob
Prayers sent to Jackson Baxter & family & friends. RIP to Peter Lenz & Toriano Wilson Prayers for their families & loved ones.
I wish this little hard charger the best .... These things are so dangerous but so much fun ... My son never wanted to ride a bike and I was happy about that ...
I just checked the hospital Website and Jackson had a good morning. Hang tough kid, you will be flying around the MX track soon.
Thanks for all the positive vibes folks! Jackson is making slow but sure progress. We're all crossing our fingers and praying for him.
