Regardless of how the accident happened, a rider on a motorcycle can sustain devastating life -
altering injuries or death when involved in an accident even though they are wearing all their full protective gear.
In that speech (a full copy of which you can view by clicking here), I offered some suggestions on how each of us — whether we be parent, coach, official, athletic trainer, clinician, current
or former professional athlete, sports safety equipment manufacturer, whether we were there representing a local youth sports program, the national governing body of a sport,
or a professional sports league, could work together as a team to protect our country's most precious human resource — our children — against catastrophic
injury or death from sudden impact syndrome
or the serious, life -
altering consequences of multiple concussions.
According to Columbia court, a catastrophic
injury creates life
altering change, such as
death, paraplegia, loss of a limb, brain
injury,
or significant
injury that prevents the injured person from returning to life as they knew it.