Man Left in 'Vegetative State' After Motorbike Lands on His Head

A man has been left hospitalised with severe, life-altering brain injuries after falling victim to an horrific motorcycle accident in a Belfast park.

Ilabek Avetian was sunbathing with his wife, Anzhela Kotsinian, in Dublin's Darndale park earlier this year when a scrambler bike, the type typically used for dirt racing, came over the hill at speed and landed on the couple.

The bike ran over Anzhela's pelvis, breaking it, but Illabek suffered a worse fate as his head was in her lap at the time. The bike's wheels crushed Illabek's skull, causing multiple facial fractures, including bones in the jaw and nose, a forehead fracture, the loss of an eye, and severe brain injury and haemorrhaging.

Ilabek was immediately placed on a ventilator, with a cranial pressure monitor also inserted as Doctors found he had suffered 'severe traumatic brain injury' causing 'severe neurological deficit' as a result of being struck by the bike.

The couple had only moved from Lithuania a short time before the nightmarish accident, but now Anzhela has been forced to set up a charity donations page to allow her to live in Ireland and stay by her husband's bedside as he struggles to live.

While it is illegal to ride a scrambler bike on public land in the UK (you must be on private land with express permission), the same laws do not currently apply in Ireland. Such bikes are free to ride through parks, and are only subject to local authority by-laws, although Anzhela is calling on the Irish government to do more to reign in the use of scrambler bikes in public places.

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