A young 18-year-old mountain biker was seriously injured last Thursday in the Vosges mountains after a fall caused by a studded board, put down to avoid mountain biking passages.
His tires burst and the young man hit a tree, reports
the Republican East
.
Isolated, the young mountain biker dragged himself for a long time, losing consciousness several times, to find a telephone network and alert the emergency services.
The gendarmes succeeded in geolocating him to the place called Engelberg on the heights of Wegscheid near Masevaux.
The young man was finally able to be helicoptered by Dragon 67 to Mulhouse.
He suffers from cranial, facial and abdominal trauma including a broken liver, our colleagues specify.
An investigation was opened by the Masevaux-Niederbruck gendarmerie and the victim filed a complaint.
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