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Just browsing and saw this, so I will copy in my post on Scottish_Elises. Good news is that I saw Brian in Hospital on Thursday and is hoping to be out on Sunday. Some of you will have met him as he was on last years Highland Hoon, black Elise with a Honda engine.
"After Brian Laing and I left KH today, it was gorgeous t-shirt weather so we came home via the back roads. The police have statements and details, there will be no charges so probably better that I give the details rather than them coming out second hand.
About two miles from Edzell on an unclassified country road, Brian must have misjudged the corner and gone straight across the road and into a tree. When I stopped he was still in the car and making no attempt to get out. The offside door, wing and windscreen were buried in the tree, and the car was also in a ditch at an angle of 45degs. He was concious, but his face and chest were covered in blood and he could not move his arms. He had feeling in his back and legs, there was no arterial bleeding, no smell of petrol or signs of fire, but it was a bugger trying to get into him to check and stop the bleeding with bare feet, t-shirt and a body that does not work at the best of times.
There was a towel in the car, his ear looked bad, but it was hard to see whether he was bleeding from the chest, so I held a compress against his ear and it seemed to stop the bleeding, which gave me a chance to call an ambulance and the police. Another motorist stopped to help, so I was able to hand the phone over to him and help Brian. It looked as if his upper right arm was broken, and possibly his shoulder, and his left arm either broken or dislocated, so there was no way that I could get him out of the car, but everything else was stable, so better that he staid in. Fortunately the ambulance was not long in coming as they diverted it from another call. Took quite a long time for them to check out Brian and stabilise him, but he had a snap on steering wheel which helped them in getting him out.
They got him out and onto a stretcher and into the ambulance, he was talking coherently, so no sign of any head injury other than the cuts. They put him on a morphine drip which gave me a chance to call his wife Isobel, and reassure her that he had had an accident but was OK. The police took quite a while to arrive, but they were good cops and did not make a drama out of a crisis. They started out trying to pin it down to excessive speed, which it wasn't, and when we backtracked the tyre marks, it looked as if he clipped a rock sticking out from the verge on the entry to the bend which unsettled the car, so he was not able to turn into the next left hander and went straight on into the tree.
Fortunately he slewed and hit the tree side on and not head on. Unfortunately it was the only effing tree in sight, without it he would have probably cleared the fence that was below road level, and landed flat on a nice grassy field.
Once he was wrapped up in the ambulance, I was able to call Isobel again, and though he could not move his arms, I could hold the phone to his good ear so that he could talk to her. Will get an update from her later, when she has seen him. They have taken him to Aberdeen ARI.
Not a mark on the nearside of the car, but not much left on the offside.
Bloody back is killing me now, but taken some painkillers and got the bottle of Laphroaig out.
tut
ps great session on track, warm as hell, and just a few short red flags.
"Just spoken to Isobel and his eldest daughter who is a doctor. Not too good I am afraid. Both arms are broken, left one not too badly, but the right one is very badly smashed from upper arm through to the shoulder. Sounds as if the bones have splintered, they are operating this morning so will know more later. They can do wonders nowadays so hopefully they can pin everything back together.
His right ear is mangled which is where all the blood came from but amazingly he was not cut anywhere else. Back and legs are both fine.
He must have broken his left arm holding onto the wheel as there was no damage to that side and the wheel was intact, so an indication of the force. Isobel said to ask me what speed he thought he was doing, he reckoned 40 and I would have thought 40-45, and whether he would be able to buy the wreck back from the insurance company to get the engine. A lad after my own heart.
He can also remember more of the accident now, he thought the road went straight after the bend, whereas it was a chicane going into a hidden dip. I think he may have seen the road running straight on the other side of the dip.
Fingers crossed for him that they do a good job on his arm/shoulder.
tut"
"Isobel just phoned me with an update on Brian.
He was in surgery yesterday for ten hours, but as it was late evening when they finished she has not had a report yet on how it went. Hopefully will hear later today.
tut"
"Just back from hospital and called in to see Brian whilst I was there. He was looking good and sounding very positive. Great that he has full use of his hands and fingers, so no nerve or tendon damage. He took a lump out of his left arm internally which must have been impact through the steering wheel, and his right arm had breakages from below the shoulder to below the elbow. However his shoulder was not damaged as first thought and he is expecting to get out by Sunday.
Good news for me as well, the Endoscopy showed that the oesophagus has not turned cancerous, so maybe good for a few more years yet.
tut"
Just browsing and saw this, so I will copy in my post on Scottish_Elises. Good news is that I saw Brian in Hospital on Thursday and is hoping to be out on Sunday. Some of you will have met him as he was on last years Highland Hoon, black Elise with a Honda engine.
"After Brian Laing and I left KH today, it was gorgeous t-shirt weather so we came home via the back roads. The police have statements and details, there will be no charges so probably better that I give the details rather than them coming out second hand.
About two miles from Edzell on an unclassified country road, Brian must have misjudged the corner and gone straight across the road and into a tree. When I stopped he was still in the car and making no attempt to get out. The offside door, wing and windscreen were buried in the tree, and the car was also in a ditch at an angle of 45degs. He was concious, but his face and chest were covered in blood and he could not move his arms. He had feeling in his back and legs, there was no arterial bleeding, no smell of petrol or signs of fire, but it was a bugger trying to get into him to check and stop the bleeding with bare feet, t-shirt and a body that does not work at the best of times.
There was a towel in the car, his ear looked bad, but it was hard to see whether he was bleeding from the chest, so I held a compress against his ear and it seemed to stop the bleeding, which gave me a chance to call an ambulance and the police. Another motorist stopped to help, so I was able to hand the phone over to him and help Brian. It looked as if his upper right arm was broken, and possibly his shoulder, and his left arm either broken or dislocated, so there was no way that I could get him out of the car, but everything else was stable, so better that he staid in. Fortunately the ambulance was not long in coming as they diverted it from another call. Took quite a long time for them to check out Brian and stabilise him, but he had a snap on steering wheel which helped them in getting him out.
They got him out and onto a stretcher and into the ambulance, he was talking coherently, so no sign of any head injury other than the cuts. They put him on a morphine drip which gave me a chance to call his wife Isobel, and reassure her that he had had an accident but was OK. The police took quite a while to arrive, but they were good cops and did not make a drama out of a crisis. They started out trying to pin it down to excessive speed, which it wasn't, and when we backtracked the tyre marks, it looked as if he clipped a rock sticking out from the verge on the entry to the bend which unsettled the car, so he was not able to turn into the next left hander and went straight on into the tree.
Fortunately he slewed and hit the tree side on and not head on. Unfortunately it was the only effing tree in sight, without it he would have probably cleared the fence that was below road level, and landed flat on a nice grassy field.
Once he was wrapped up in the ambulance, I was able to call Isobel again, and though he could not move his arms, I could hold the phone to his good ear so that he could talk to her. Will get an update from her later, when she has seen him. They have taken him to Aberdeen ARI.
Not a mark on the nearside of the car, but not much left on the offside.
Bloody back is killing me now, but taken some painkillers and got the bottle of Laphroaig out.
tut
ps great session on track, warm as hell, and just a few short red flags.
"Just spoken to Isobel and his eldest daughter who is a doctor. Not too good I am afraid. Both arms are broken, left one not too badly, but the right one is very badly smashed from upper arm through to the shoulder. Sounds as if the bones have splintered, they are operating this morning so will know more later. They can do wonders nowadays so hopefully they can pin everything back together.
His right ear is mangled which is where all the blood came from but amazingly he was not cut anywhere else. Back and legs are both fine.
He must have broken his left arm holding onto the wheel as there was no damage to that side and the wheel was intact, so an indication of the force. Isobel said to ask me what speed he thought he was doing, he reckoned 40 and I would have thought 40-45, and whether he would be able to buy the wreck back from the insurance company to get the engine. A lad after my own heart.
He can also remember more of the accident now, he thought the road went straight after the bend, whereas it was a chicane going into a hidden dip. I think he may have seen the road running straight on the other side of the dip.
Fingers crossed for him that they do a good job on his arm/shoulder.
tut"
"Isobel just phoned me with an update on Brian.
He was in surgery yesterday for ten hours, but as it was late evening when they finished she has not had a report yet on how it went. Hopefully will hear later today.
tut"
"Just back from hospital and called in to see Brian whilst I was there. He was looking good and sounding very positive. Great that he has full use of his hands and fingers, so no nerve or tendon damage. He took a lump out of his left arm internally which must have been impact through the steering wheel, and his right arm had breakages from below the shoulder to below the elbow. However his shoulder was not damaged as first thought and he is expecting to get out by Sunday.
Good news for me as well, the Endoscopy showed that the oesophagus has not turned cancerous, so maybe good for a few more years yet.
tut"
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