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some ugly details from NEAR:

Re: Any info on Gerard?
Posted by: "Dan Benson"
Mon Apr 28, 2008 5:23 am (PDT)
Todd, Gman had a hell of a wreck, this is what I have been told by a
few people.

Coming out of twelve, Gman and Miles were going strong and were
rounding a slow rider that was getting lapped. Miles was able to pass
this rider but as he did so the rider (I do not know how it is/was)
fixated on miles and came in behind him and in doing so hit his front
wheel on Miles' Rear, causing said rider to crash in the race line.

Gerard being just behind Miles was then forced to run square into the
bike that just crashed in front of him. Peter also mentioned that
another rider then hit one of the two downed bikes, probably during
Gman's Superman test flight.

Talking with Kip and Peter, sounds like Gman then flew about 15 feet
in the air according to a girl on the front that saw it, landing up
high in the fence at the top of the line out of twelve on the front
straight. Kips tells me the landing from up that high did most of the
damage. So far he has a broken shoulder, humerus, all six ribs on one
side, shattered two neck vertebra. He was in the ICU on Sat night
getting the remains of the vertebra removed to get the pressure off
his spine. Last I heard, he is awake, able to move everything but his
left hand. Ironically the two things that are the most troubling to
Gman's body were left untouched, His Legs and his head. A good shot to
his head could have done him some good but we all get to see his
shining personality unchanged in the near future.

We all know Gerard, I am sure he is flipping out being stuck in a bed,
all ADD'd out, wanting to go do something. He will be recovering from
some time from this one and I am sure we will all do what we can from
he, his wife, little G and Chris.

We will get his ass back out there soon and I look forward to it.

I don't know anything about the other riders, I hope they are well.