Elizabeth Cardinal
2009-01-17
Thanks for thinking of us. It was an extremely freak accident and everyone is recovering well. Devin Moeller suffered a fractured wrist and busted up lip and chin, and Autumn Peterson suffered road rash.
As four of us were riding south on 17th Ave, a doug fir branch fell out of a tree coming between the first 2 of us and Autumn and Devin. It literally went from the tree into Autumn's front wheel which stopped her completely and threw her from the bike. Devin then ran into the back of her.
I suspect this type of incident has less probability of happening than getting struck by lightening. So weird. Luckily there wasn't worse carnage.
Thanks for your thoughts and concerns. Be careful out there.