RICHMOND, Va. — Rachael Santmyer said her husband, Erik’s love of rides came to an abrupt stop three weeks ago when Erik was involved in a near-fatal motorcycle crash. He was hit during rush hour on Main Street while riding to work at Skybox in the Fan.
“I heard everything. His phone was in his lap. I heard the entire ambulance ride. I heard what they did to him in the trauma ward. I heard him shouting,” Rachael said.
Erik spent the next two and a half weeks intubated in the ICU as his family anxiously waited, knowing he was fighting hard for his life…