LAKESIDE, Calif. (KGTV) – A Lakeside man is defying the odds after a motorcycle crash in mid-June left him with devastating injuries doctors feared he would not survive.
Matthew Harger, 20, was riding home from a family friend’s house in Campo on a Wednesday night when he crashed on Buckman Springs Road near Cameron Truck Trail. The cause of the crash remains unclear. Passing drivers discovered Harger in the middle of the road, about 15 feet from his mangled motorcycle.
Harger, who had been wearing his helmet, was airlifted to a San Diego hospital with a massive brain bleed. He suffered fractures throughout his skull, and injuries throughout his upper chest…