So the biking in the evening has been a bit hit. So much so that the kids requested I come home to do it again tonight. All us went tonight (it works better to have two parental units for the two kids since they move at different speeds on their bikes). For the most part the trip was Quinn was zip ahead, I would stay with him, then we would wait at an intersection for Catherine and Ginger to catch up.
Unfortunately near the end of the trip Quinn had a fairly major wipeout. No one knows what happened exactly, because I was in front of him and didn't see it and we were both far enough ahead of Ginger and Catherine that they didn't see it either (although Ginger heard it). I think it's partly my fault. Quinn was zipping ahead and the next intersection we were going to be arriving at is the busiest of the trip. So I had passed Quinn on the road while he was on the sidewalk. I think he thought I was trying to race him and he tried to catch me (whereas I was merely trying to get to the intersection before him). He ended up going off the sidewalk and crashing on the street (and almost wedging his bike under a parked car).
He was pretty shaken up by the crash. He ended up scraping up the front of his hands and his shoulder pretty bad, but his head seems to have made it out intact. This actually made me like the fact that there are now helmet laws for kids.
I ended up biking home by myself (as fast as I could go) to get the car and come back for him and let Ginger drive him home. Meanwhile that left me getting Catherine and the two other bikes back home. I ended up having the walk the bikes, luckily Catherine doesn't ride too much faster than I could walk.
While I was gone Ginger tried to find out what happened, but Quinn wasn't able to recall any details at all about what caused the crash. She said he was shaking at that point, and she got him to calm down by explaining that the parked car had jumped out and attacked him (he liked this version of events and continued to use it afterward).
Looking back there's a section right before he crashed that has a bush that's overgrown onto the sidewalk right at the spot where on the other side of the sidewalk is a fire hydrant. The only thing I can think of that might have happened is he tried to avoid the fire hydrant, got his handle caught in the bush (which probably turned him some to the right) and he drastically overcompensated turning left and ended up crashing in the street.
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I suppose a concussion is possible, but he did have on his bike helmet, and there didn't appear to be any obvious spots on it where it had hit the pavement.
And yea, I unfortunately know all about those as I had a concussion from a bike accident when I was younger too. After the accident apparently I got up, walked my bike home, came into the house and collapsed. But all I remember is going up the ramp and into the air on the bike, the next memory I had was waking up as being carried into the hospital.
Did not know that helmets were only good for one fall. Considering he uses it at ice skating it probably should have been replaced already by now if that's the case.
Thanks for the heads up.
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