Dave's Scooter Accident

So a few weeks ago we were doing our normal morning routine...Dave leaves for school and Linc and I go down and say bye to him and then close the garage once he is gone. This particular morning we walked him down, he got on his scooter and took off. Like normal we heard him ride to the corner and then stop for the stop sign and traffic. We usually wait til we can't hear him and then close the garage. What we heard next was not normal and definitely scary!! I heard him start his scooter and take off for like maybe two seconds and then I heard a BOOM!! I quickly composed myself and assured myself that at least he did not get hit by a car since I did not hear any screeching or anything like that. We quickly walked out of the garage and looked over to where Dave was getting up off of the grass...he had crashed his scooter and did a flip that had him land on the grassy area. I was glad to see that he was getting up and at least no major damage to him, but his scooter on the other hand was in pretty bad shape. If the scooter were human the paramedics probably would have done CPR to revive it. A bus stopped at the scene of the accident and asked if an ambulance needed to be called, Dave said no. We collected the pieces of the scooter that we could find and then walked the scooter back to the house. I took Dave to school that day.



Later that evening we examined the scene of the accident and noticed that Dave had taken a huge chunk of concrete off the curb/gutter!! There were chunks of concrete in the gutter and down the drain as well as some more pieces of the scooter. We collected a few more pieces, but the ones down in the drain we could not get to so they are still there to this day! Dave's scooter wheel is totally unaligned, the mirror was broken off, most of the lights were broken, it is scratched up, the license in the back was completely in half before it was pushed back to kind of flat, the floor part is cracked and so is the front side part. After seeing the accident site and the bike I was so happy that Dave was okay...it could have been so much worse than it was. Definitely a blessing!!!