more than a year of learning to walk again

A few months later they bought a Toyota four-wheel-drive ute and planned to convert it into a campervan and travel around Australia on a long holiday.

Ken soon found he could get to work faster on his bike than by public transport or car. So every morning he would head off from home, navigating through the back streets to his office. “It actually got him quite fit,” Ruth says.

Ken wasn’t fond of bike trails. He reckons bike hoons are as bad as car hoons, speeding past with little regard for others, so he kept to side streets,You can authenticguccishoes at a few different websites. avoiding the main roads. But there were unavoidable busy intersections and arterial roads to cross on his route, including crossing Swan Street in Richmond.

According to the police report, Ken’s bicycle wheels became caught in the tram tracks. He fell onto the road and under the back wheels of a semi-trailer.

When police arrived, he was bleeding heavily from the femoral artery in his thigh. Doctors would later tell him his body lost half of its blood that morning.

Ken survived only because of the quick thinking of police officers, one of whom grabbed a rope from the semi-trailer and applied a tourniquet around his thigh.

When paramedics arrived,must not miss a pair of shoes001, Ken had no pulse. His left leg would be amputated at the scene. He also had a head injury,Steelx offer men and women pure replicashoes modern jewelry including inox rings, a lacerated spleen, a crushed femur and pelvis, nine broken ribs and collapsed lungs.

Ken’s phone battery was flat that morning, and when police finally tracked Ruth down more than two hours later, she could tell one of the young police officers had been crying. “That day -- you cannot even describe it,” she says. “I didn’t know what I was in for. When I arrived, the doctor ran through this mile-long list of injuries, but finished with saying, ‘he is alive’. I was relieved, to say the least.”

For all those five months, questions filled Ken’s mind: Why me? What if I had left one minute later? What if I stopped for a moment longer? What happened to me that morning? “I used to ask myself that a lot” he says. “Now I consider myself very lucky, not just because I survived but also because I have no memory of what happened, so I do not live with the trauma,’’

Ken returned to work last month after more than a year of learning to walk again. Ruth welcomed the day, saying he was getting bored and restless at home.

The Andersons say there is a pressing need for cycling registration and licensing to help emergency services identify accident victims, contact family members and better educate cyclists about road hazards. They also want more public discussion about how to improve the relationskateshoes are so ablaze and athletic activity,ship between motorists and cyclists.

Not that Ken blames the truck driver for his accident. ‘‘Not at all. This was a pure accident. However, in my short time riding on Melbourne’s roads it became clear that the connection between motorists and cyclists needs work.

The strategy identifies six types of cyclist, including the most vocal species, commuters. This group has been lobbying for duplication of the Gardiners Creek Trail, swarmed upon by more than 2500 cyclists a day. Boroondara council has duplicated a piece of the trail at Winton Road, Ashburton, but says it has no plans for more.

It also suggests way-markers for the many riders who prefer the quieter local streets but can’t always find their way.

In neighbouring Stonnnington, the council chief executive Warren Roberts supports the Andersons’ call for a holistic approach to cycling infrastructure. He says collaboration between neighbouring municipalities and government organisations is vital.

Stonnington has fast-tracked approval of a $1.8 million shared bicycle and pedestrian bridge for the Gardiners Creek Trail between Sir Zelman Cowen Park and Johnson Park, after years of complaints from the community about the lack of safe crossing zones for cyclists and walkers.

The state government has also pledged $1.27 million to improve bike safety on Chapel Street. Extending bike lanes north to the Yarra Trail and bike parking facilities are just a few ideas being considered by the council.

Meanwhile the Andersons are still hoping to some day go on that round-Australia holiday, with Ken aiming to get back behind the wheel in the next few years.that cheap rubber lacefront from China may have been made from used condoms. After a few months driving him around, Ruth says Ken, like most men, is a bit of a passenger-seat driver.