Hit and Run

For anyone that has been involved in an accident, you know that they can be terribly painful, and have traumatic results. Well, last Thursday, July 3rd, Jared was involved in a hit and run, literally. Our family went to our cabin in Utah for a "Wood" family reunion for the 4th of July. The second day of the trip, Jared and our brother-in-law Kimo decided to go on a first of many planned dirt bike rides. They packed up the bikes, got the maps, water, all the important necessities, and were on their way. I was in the house with Jared's sister Dana watching the kids when not even 10 minutes later, we heard a bike pull up to the house. I just assumed that either Jared or Kimo forgot something and came back to get whatever was forgotten. I walked out front and there was Jared hanging onto his dirt bike for dear life, yelling that an antelope had hit him. What? I immediately asked him if he was kidding, then as he took off his helmet and I saw his face in total agony, I knew he wasn't. Dana and I had to grab the bike as he had no strength left in him to hold it up as he tried to get off without collapsing. He kept saying an antelope had hit him. I looked at the bike and did not see too much damage, until I walked around on the other side and saw a huge chunk of antelope fur and blood hanging off the bike. Apparently, as they started out, Kimo was ahead of Jared, and they were about 2 miles from the house in a meadow when Jared saw an antelope running out the corner of his eye. He had about 2 seconds to react and tried to speed up to avoid hitting the antelope if it ran in front of him. Well, he wasn't fast enough and the antelope ended up T-boning the rear of the bike, it fish-tailed and Jared was thrown from the bike and landed in a ditch. He doesn't remember much, just spinning and then waking up in face first in the ditch. Since Kimo was ahead of Jared, and didn't realize this had happened, Jared had to get up and come back to the house all by himself. Luckily, there were two guys coming back from the same trail that found Jared in the ditch and helped pick his bike up. I ended up taking Jared to the Panguitch town emergency room, which was actually pretty nice for a small town ER. He ended up with two broken ribs in the front, one broken rib in his lower back, two other fractured ribs, and covered in bruises and road rash from his right shoulder all the way to his ankles. So the weekend of dirt bike and four wheeler riding was put to a halt, and he ended up sitting and sleeping the rest of the weekend. Luckily, the doctor gave him lots of good pain pills to help with the pain. ...... How random is this?