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Boy survives 100ft Grand Canyon fall after dodging tourist photo (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by BrikoX to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Among his injuries were nine broken vertebrae, a ruptured spleen, broken hand and a collapsed lung. [...] "We're just lucky we're bringing our kid home [to North Dakota] in a car in the front seat instead of in a box."

... I'm not sure that's the best way to transport someone who was just diagnosed with nine broken vertebrae.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

I assume he was in whatever local hospital for a while until safe to move.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They’re doing a road trip, I’m concerned

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think they meant that they will drive him home in the front seat. The article seems to be written within the same week as the accident, I can’t imagine he’s been released from the hospital yet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I thought it was odd, too - but from the article it seems like he has.

He was flown to hospital with serious injuries but has since been discharged.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was thinking there must be younger siblings in the back, so he had to travel in front. But now I realize both parents were there, so that means one of the parents is in the back seat...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Maybe they had him in the front seat because it reclines?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Wyatt's father, Brian Kauffman, who was home in North Dakota at the time of the accident.