Lizzie’s Blog

Just now I was looking  on the One News website for something to put on my blog and I couldn’t find anything that really interested me and I was just about to stop looking when I found an article that was quite interesting. This is what it is about…

A 19 year old man has died after falling from his skateboard on the outskirts of Whangarei. Apparently the teenager was skating down a steep hill in Maunu, 5 kilometres south of the city centre on Saturday, as he was skating down the hill he lost control and crashed. The teenager was taken to the Whangarei Hospital. When he got there he had really bad head injuries and died over night. A family member, believed to have been the boy’s father, is thought to have seen the crash. I think this is really sad, but somehow I get the feeling he wasn’t wearing a helmet. Now I know he nineteen and people probably think that maybe people that age don’t need them. However a few weeks ago I was biking home from school and I tried to pass someone and their bag hit my handlebars and I flipped over the bike and skidded face first onto the concrete. It really hurt and now I have marks on my face, but at least my head didn’t get damaged because I was wearing a helmet. So they really do work.