SALT LAKE CITY — Dan Bender was riding the Hidden Forest trail with some friends on Friday, Oct. 3, when a wire hit his helmet and mouth, throwing him from the bike and cutting his face.
“If a dirt bike rider was going at a higher rate of speed and to have that hit them without a helmet on, or if they were to have that hit them in the neck area, it could cause serious bodily injury and/or potentially even be fatal,” said Sgt. Ray Ormond with the Utah County Sheriff’s Office, which is investigating the case.
Ormond said he hasn’t seen anything like this in his 20 years of policing…