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1/26/2012 2:54am
February 7, 2011- Popular Supercross privateer, Daniel Blair, suffered a
horrendous crash this past weekend during the first practice at the Monster
Energy Supercross at Angel Stadium.
Daniel came up short on one of the tracks triples and fractured his L4 and
L5 vertebrae upon impact, as well as breaking his femur. Daniel has been in
the ICU unit at UC Irvine Medical center, where he underwent a successful
operation to set his femur.
A decision has not yet been made on his back as they weigh out options of
transporting him back home to Northern California for further evaluation.
Daniel's wife and 10- month old son have come down to be with him. Since he
will be bed-ridden for the next 6 weeks, their family has no source of
income.
A paypal account has been set up to help Daniel and his family. If you are
in a position to donate anything, please got to
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=9J…
horrendous crash this past weekend during the first practice at the Monster
Energy Supercross at Angel Stadium.
Daniel came up short on one of the tracks triples and fractured his L4 and
L5 vertebrae upon impact, as well as breaking his femur. Daniel has been in
the ICU unit at UC Irvine Medical center, where he underwent a successful
operation to set his femur.
A decision has not yet been made on his back as they weigh out options of
transporting him back home to Northern California for further evaluation.
Daniel's wife and 10- month old son have come down to be with him. Since he
will be bed-ridden for the next 6 weeks, their family has no source of
income.
A paypal account has been set up to help Daniel and his family. If you are
in a position to donate anything, please got to
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=9J…
Dam it - feld motorsports, ama, fim and the industry should find a way to help financially protect the licensed pro rider participating in ama sanctioned national events. Its total nonsense that these riders are not offered better benefits packages.
Yep pie in the sky and grandiose ideas indeed!!!!
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Good luck Daniel get well soon.
They don't have a problem with spending tens of thousands of dollars on race bikes, airfare to races, and tattoos so they can look cool do they? No.
And for a guy to be married AND have a kid and be out there racing? There's really no excuse for it (the health insurance). And don't give me the "Health insurance is really expensive" shit either. Because if that's the case, he should have stayed home and gotten himself a real job.
Some of you guys go over to non-moto and yell and scream and throw fits about Obama and socialism and whatnot, but as soon as shit like this happens, y'all are the first to brow beat anyone who questions the situation and wonders why everyone's not hopping onto their paypal accounts and throwing money at a guy who raced with inadequate coverage (and don't get me started on the privateers who log in here with one hand on the keyboard and the other stuck out begging for gas money).
Maybe he can sell his race bike and practice bike and get on a payment plan like a regular Joe would have to do.
This isn't about just Daniel Blair, its about all the guys that are in the same situation if they get hurt.
A SHOUT-OUT to Eric Nye for "Being There"...for sittin' in that waiting room all day into the nite and being there for his friend. I was there...at UCI E-Ward. Eric jus' waited and hoped...and waited. No complaints, jus' a positive attitude.
A true freind.
Then there's those of you wanna make your points about irresponsibility: Save it. May this NEVER happen to ANYONE you know. Ever. WITH or WITHOUT Insurance.
We at CDG are in.
...& Guy, thank you for keepin' this in the front of our hearts and minds.
Daniel, you are in our thoughts and prayers
If the people behind the scenes helping Daniel need website designed and developed to help with the fundraising process I would be more than happy to donate the time and expense to get this job done - message me and we will make this happen for Daniel, and his family.
Posts like this you got 3 choices. 1.Help 2. Don't help 3. Shut the fuck up
People can donate a few K but that's not going to even put a dent in the $250K of medical bills he is about to receive. If he doesn't have Insurance, he is going to file BK and responsible people donating their money isn't going to change that one bit.
People shouldn't even be allowed to ride, much less race, w/o Health Insurance. Furthermore anyone that is a bread winner should have disability insurance as well. That's just common sense.
As someone that broke his back just 4 months ago, sorry but we all should be responsible for ourselves. Count your blessings that in the USA filing BK due to medical bills just really isn't a big deal. You won't lose your 1 home or car or anything.
Daniel, I really hope you get to feeling better sir. I wish you the best.
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I respected you till you got to point 3.
Perhaps some of you are not aware of the sad stories of action sports athletes(motorcycle and bmx) who had life changing accidents that led to various permanent disabilities - in some cased the wives of these athletes bailed out on the family based on the result of both the change of lifestyle and inability to finance the families household expense. Some people never know about some of these sad behind the scenes stories.
Fundamentally of my post on this subject is really about the motorcycle industry as whole not being more committed to securing more comprehensive benefits for the athletes.
My kid got hurt about a thousand miles from home. I had motel and out of town expenses, and my wife had to fly out as well. Family come first, and we stayed by his side. We are self-employed which meant no money until we went back to work. After a few weeks we had to fly him back, and one of us had to stay at home with him. There are a lot of "extra expenses" that are not covered by insurance.
I am not writing this to cry, my point is to cut Mr. Blair some slack. With our injury, the breadwinners (my wife and I) were just interrupted and it took a while to get on track. He has a wife and kid to think about.
We treat these riders as disposable. They aren't.
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