Mullica Township Police Department
Thursday at 7:14 P.M., Officers along with Atlanticare E.M.S. were dispatched to the end of Baremore Road, off of Columbia Road, for a report of a dirt bike accident. The victim, a 15 year old male from Haddonfield N.J., was riding his dirt bike while visiting relatives in the area. The subject crashed in a remote area of the Township off of Baremore Road at approximately 4 P.M. The subject severely injured his left leg during the crash. Concerned family members began searching for him and located him.
Extrication from the wooded area was a difficult process. The New
Jersey Forest Fire Service, Mullica Township Police, Atlanticare E.M.S
and the Elwood Volunteer Fire Company assisted in the process. The
juvenile was airlifted to AtlantiCare City Division for treatment.
Due to the injuries the juvenile sustained and the time it took for his family to locate him, the juvenile was exposed to the evening thunder storm before the family made contact.
Press article at
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/boy-who-crashed-atv-stranded-in-mullica-township-woods/article_524707cc-376f-11e5-ac58-7f888bb23248.html
Due to the injuries the juvenile sustained and the time it took for his family to locate him, the juvenile was exposed to the evening thunder storm before the family made contact.
Press article at
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/boy-who-crashed-atv-stranded-in-mullica-township-woods/article_524707cc-376f-11e5-ac58-7f888bb23248.html
Not many people look forward to sitting in a hospital bed, but 15-year-old Finn Miller had reason to on Thursday evening.
The
Haddonfield, New Jersey teen was out for what he called an intended
"quick spin" alone on his Yamaha dirt bike in some woods in Mullica Twp. when things took a potentially deadly turn.
Miller
said he was riding a little further than he usually goes and going a
bit too fast when he lost control and crashed into a tree.
"My
leg smacked directly into the tree - and it flew me off the bike and I
spun around and I landed on the ground," Miller told NBC10's George
Spencer Friday night from that hospital bed at Cooper University
Hospital.
Miller
said he landed and knew immediately that his leg was broken, "I could
feel my leg was bending in a way it shouldn't have been."
Miller yelled for help and even tried to use sticks as crutches as thunderstorms whipped through and darkness fell.
It was two and a half hours before the teen's grandfather and friend found him exhausted, muddied and laying in the trail bed.
The
high school lacrosse player broke his femur and has a long road of
recovery ahead, meaning he'll likely miss this year's season.
Miller
said he's learned his lesson on this fateful ride, "Definitely ride
with someone. It was unsmart of me to not ride with anyone."
Miller also suggests carrying a cell phone and making sure someone knows exactly where you are going.
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