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Updated: 2:35 PM Sep 15, 2009
Topeka City Attorney Injured in Bike Accident
Topeka City Attorney Jackie Williams is recovering from a bicycle accident.
Posted: 1:50 PM Sep 15, 2009Reporter: 13 News |
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Topeka (WIBW) - Topeka City Attorney Jackie Williams is sporting an unplanned fashion statement.
The city announced Tuesday that Williams suffered a fractured vertebra Sunday afternoon in a bicycle accident on the Shunga Trail. He was not wearing a helmet.
Williams said he will wear a neck brace for two or three months as a precaution and to aid in healing.
Williams is expected to make a full recovery. The city says he plans to return to work next week.
Williams pointed to his accident as a reminder to bicycle riders to wear a helmet regardless of the length of the ride or riding conditions.
Williams wasn't the only person injured in a weekend biking accident. WIBW Channel General Manager Jim Ogle suffered scrapes and bruises and requires elbow surgery following a fall off his bicycle on SW 10th St. Saturday afternoon. Ogle was wearing a helmet.
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How might wearing a helmet have helped mitigate the rider's vertebra injury?
Edward- If you enjoy biking, have you considered a three wheeled bike? After you get used to them they are much safer and more stable to ride. Just a thought. I know a few riders that have them.
I am tired of going to shunga to walk with my children and the bikers go as fast as they can. going around bends is scary. we don't even go walking there because we have almost been hit twice by bike riders. Maybe if their going that fast they can take it to the street and let the calmer bikers take the trails. This is a great place for young riders but then again the speeders ruin it for all.
