[roddy1960]

Yep , Hope it works out for the rider somehow . You just never know what might happen . My boss (principal) of our school was driving to work yesterday morning and was about to hit the top of the pass , then noticed a large tree that had fallen from the 100 plus kmh winds and about 80mm of rain over the weekend. A local council crew had one lane open ready for three school buses and other traffic and the boss was waved through at about 7.45 am .As he just cleared the work crew another tree began falling right in front of him . He couldn't stop and by pure luck it basically hit straight in front of him but two year old Jeep Wrangler hit the trunk square on , he reckoned about 10 kmh .
Airbags didn't deploy but he stowed in the front bumper bar and broke lights . If he'd arrived a second or two later almost certainly the Jeep would have copped the tree full on . Likely tragic because going by photos it was a decent sized gum tree about 50 cm diameter at an estimate .

Took about half an hour to clear up the tree and the boss and buses and other traffic moved through . He was a bit shaken but seemingly unhurt except a bit uncomfortable from the seat belt drag that he mentioned later in the morning and the car seemed drive-able to work that was about 4 km from the incident . He told a couple of staff he'd leave it at the garage though to get looked at before driving home in the afternoon .

He seemed fine and began his day apparently . About lunch time he let Admin know he was going to the hospital because he wasn't feeling so well .

I went to work this morning as was informed that he was rushed off to our main General hospital because of serious concerns with his health that our local hospital were worried about . Still didn't know at knock off time what the actual concerns were but it is a lesson to us all that never decide for yourself in such a case if you're okay or not.
Get checked out .

Probably one of last things the bike rider and my boss would have been thinking in the last day or two that they'd be in a pickle in hospital by the end of the day but they did. Just happens and at any time .

Sometimes life is a real bitch unfortunately .