Ex-US Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming dies after bicycle accident

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) — Retired Sen. Mike Enzi, a Wyoming Republican known as a consensus-builder in an increasingly polarized Washington, has died. He was 77.

Enzi died peacefully Monday surrounded by family and friends, former spokesman Max D’Onofrio said.

Enzi had been hospitalized with a broken neck and ribs three days after a bicycle accident near Gillette on Friday. He was stabilized before being flown to a hospital in Colorado but remained unconscious, D’Onofrio said.

Enzi fell near his home about 8:30 p.m. Friday, family friend John Daly said, around the time Gillette police received a report of a man lying unresponsive in a road near a bike.



FILE - In this March 27, 2019, file photo, Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, makes an opening statement on the fiscal year 2020 budget resolution, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Recently retired U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming died Monday, July 26, 2021. He was 77 years old. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)


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[sinkingfeeling]

1. R.I.P.

[twodogsbarking]

2. Sorry for your loss friends and family.

A shame.

[Wingus Dingus]

3. Ouch--trying to exercise and keep fit, that's a shame. RIP.

Edit to add: I wonder if this was a hit and run? Seems like pretty severe injuries for just falling off a bicycle.

[marble falls]

5. Some of us get brittle as we get older.

[twin_ghost]

6. It depends on how you land when falling from a bicycle if your neck will be broken.

[marble falls]

4. Always struck me as reasonable and hard working for a Republican. Sorry to hear of his passing.

[chowder66]

7. +1

[pansypoo53219]

8. luckily i took tumbling as a kid. only time i fell off a bike head 1st, i landed on my ass + the

bike ran over me. i hit a big bump.