Tag: CRASH
    “Accident” – There’s no such thing
    Written by A Community on Thursday, September 09, 2009   2 Comments

    The term ‘accident’ is thrown around like it has meaning, yet it certainly does not! There is no such thing as an ‘accident’, especially in terms of injuries. This word is a contradiction, since 95% of injuries are preventable.

    A letter to the editor about ‘car accidents’ explains this concept very well and reiterates The Community’s message: Injuries don’t just happen to us – they are caused by us. They are preventable.

    There’s no such thing as car ‘accident’
    100 Mile Free Press
    September 1st, 2009

    To the editor: The number of so-called “accidents” reported by the Free Press over the past couple of weeks has got me to thinking.

    Let’s talk about the word “accident.” What is an accident? What happens when we call something an accident?
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    In The Province: Suddenly For Levi, It All Stopped Being OK
    Written by Sebastian on Thursday, August 08, 2009   One Comment


    ATV tragedy: The 18-year-old might have lived if he’d listened to mom

    BY CASSIDY OLIVIER
    STAFF REPORTER

    Poignant tribute to Levi Knapp, who died just before his high school graduation, was created by fellow students at Lakes District Secondary School in 2006. Pictured with it are his brothers Dakota (left), Roper (below) and Austin (right).From the day he brought it home, Kimberly Knapp knew her son Levi’s high-powered racing all-terrain vehicle would lead to nothing but trouble.

    The Burns Lake mother says she did everything she could think of to discourage Levi, 18, from taking the ATV — too fast and too powerful — out into the backcountry around their home.

    “I was sick every time he got that machine going,” she recalls. “He should never have had it.”
    Sometimes, she says, she’d hide the jerry can of gas. At other times, she’d hide the keys. And always, she’d offer stern words of reproach, at times going so far as to suggest riding it would lead to serious injury or even worse.

    Be careful, she’d say. Take it easy out there. Be safe. To which the lively, determined teen would reply: Yeah, mom, everything’s going to be OK. Stop worrying.
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    In The Province: “If I was sober, I wouldn’t have crashed”
    Written by robertwillis on Tuesday, August 08, 2009   3 Comments

    No Helmet:  Daniel reflects on the night he messed up his skull, and his life

    Stories by Cassidy Olivier, staff reporter

    In 2007, more than 1,000 cycling injuries that required hospitalization.

    Daniel McCash doesn’t remember much about that night last November when he crashed his bicycle and struck his head against a lamppost.

    The few details he does know have been provided by friends, who were there, and watched him flip over his bike’s handlebars and fly head first into the metal pole. It was his friends who told him he was coasting down a street in east Vancouver around 4 a.m. on Nov. 15, 2008. It was his friends who saw him lose of control of his bike when, riding without his hands, he failed to round a corner, hitting a curb instead and sailing through the air. And it was his friends who’ve told him how when they came to help; he was barely conscious and had dark, thick blood pouring from his nose.

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