Injuries soar after Michigan stops requiring motorcycle helmets

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12. It was. I was about 18 or 19 years old.

My friends and I did what we could before the ambulance arrived. No cell phones in those days, so we ran in a nearby store to call the ambulance.

He was very badly off. I still remember every single thing about him. Young, longish blond hair, wearing overalls, wisp of a beard and mustache. It was the mid-70s, and he was kind of left-over hippie-ish. Blood coming from his ear. A tear in the overalls on his thigh, with a bad gash under it. He was unconscious. I remember one of the wheels on his bike was still spinning.

I never found out what happened to him, but I doubt he made it.