[UPDATE August 8] Air Rescue Called for Man With No feeling Below Knees After Falling at the Jack Shaw Road Swimming Hole
A 55-year-old man reportedly has no feeling below his knees after a “long fall” off a bridge on Jack Shaw Road near Kneeland. At 4:12 p.m., dispatch sent medical and fire personnel to the scene of the incident.
That makes the makes the second bridge injury in less than a 10-minute span at popular swimming holes.
UPDATE August 8: A family member tells us,
…We were all up at the ranch and everyone went down to the river to go swimming. Instead of taking the trail down, [the 55-year-old] decided to jump from the tree where the rope swing hangs. The water is 25 feet deep. He did not hit anything other than water. He jumped, he did not fall. He just landed a little awkward from about 90 feet. That’s all it takes from that height! He has jumped from there before, as have many others. No permanent nerve damage but he broke a vertebra in his lower back. He is regaining some feeling in his legs. He will have to undergo spinal fusion surgery and have a rod inserted for stability. He is now at Santa Rosa Memorial, then will go to the spine clinic in San Jose.
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Water level is low
Was it at swinging bridge? (No actual bridge)
Holy crap thats a tall bridge, and not very deep holes in the river there.
He’s lucky he didnt die, watch yourself on bridges is the take home message of the hour i guess
He guessed wrong,didnt he. Dumb ass.
55 you are getting to the age where you should be cutting back on showing off.
Any word on how he is?
I feel so bad for him. Be careful out there swimmers!
Was he jumping for fun? Did he fall? Point changes the story greatly. Either unlucky and accident prone or careless and risky?