Bike spikes boy’s leg

A BOY was taken to hospital on Thursday night after he was impaled on his bicycle handlebars in Keysborough.
Paramedics were called Kingsclere Avenue at 8.55pm and found the 12-year-old boy laying on a track in a great deal of pain.
“It appears he’d been riding on a gravel track when he lost control and came off, with the handlebars going into his thigh about five inches deep,” intensive care paramedic John Wright said.
“We required the CFA to pull the bike apart as we didn’t want to remove the bar from the 12-year-old’s leg as that can be very dangerous.
“We put a drip in his arm and gave him fluids and pain relief to make him comfortable while we worked around him.
“Given the potential for a spinal injury we fitted him with a neck brace.”
One the bike was dismantled, paramedics transported him to the Monash Medical Centre with the bar still in place.
“Given the circumstances, the boy was very calm and incredibly brave,” Mr Wright said.
This was the second bike accident involving a young boy that evening. A nine-year-old boy was in an induced coma after being clipped by a car in Garfield North at 5.43pm.