Motorcyclist badly hurt after plunge into roadside pond
By AMY PUGSLEY FRASER and JENNIFER STEWART Staff Reporters
A Halifax-area motorcyclist’s Sunday drive to the South Shore came to a frightening end when he went off the road near Hubbards.
The man, driving a Honda with a group of bikers, “hit a couple of bumps” at about 5:30 p.m., according to residents who live close to where the accident occurred.
The motorcyclist, who was travelling east toward Halifax, veered off Highway 3 and ended up in a pond on the right-hand side of the road.
The road was dry but people who came out of their homes after the crash were pointing to a group of potholes near the centre line as a potential cause.
“It’s really bad right there,” said a woman in a housecoat who heard the commotion on the road in front of her property.
According to chatter on the police scanner, he was “half-thrown and half-jumped” from his bike as it hit an embankment and he tumbled about three metres into the muddy water.
Despite the fall and the roll into the pond, the driver was conscious, said the resident.
“He was talking, but he wasn’t getting up and walking out of there.”
His friends — the man was travelling with about eight other motorcyclists — stayed with him until RCMP and paramedics arrived and strapped him to a backboard.
It took a lot of attendants to lift him up and over the steep embankment as the knee-deep water, mud and long grass impeded their attempts.
Although paramedics on-site radioed for the Emergency Health Services helicopter, the chopper couldn’t take off from Halifax because of technical difficulties.
Loaded into the back of an ambulance instead, the man was in stable condition as paramedics headed out at 6:30 p.m. with lights flashing and sirens wailing for the 45-minute trip into the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre.
Because he was thrown feet-first into the pond, the man’s worst injuries were to his pelvis and femur, paramedics were reporting.
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