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ST. GEORGE — A rider was seriously injured and flown to the hospital Wednesday after he lost control of his motorcycle in Veyo.
Shortly after 6 p.m. emergency personnel responded to a single-vehicle crash involving a motorcycle that went off of Chad Ranch Road in Veyo before plunging off of a 50-foot cliff.
The rider had no recollection of the crash during the call to 911, so the incident was initially classified as a fall.
The man told dispatchers "he was hanging upside-down in a bunch of bushes and was injured," Dammeron Valley Fire Chief Kevin Dye said.
Intermountain Life Flight was launched and reported injuries as responders made their way to the scene.
Emergency personnel found the rider completely buried in a large pile of raspberry bushes more than 50 feet below the edge of the cliff.
EMTs, paramedics and firefighters made their way down the steep embankment and began to extricate the rider from the thick brush that encapsulated him.
"The brush was so thick there was no way the rider could have gotten himself free and it was even difficult for our responders to get to him initially," Dye said.
While the rugged terrain and thick brush made for a complicated rescue, the chief said, those factors also saved the rider “who hit head-first without a helmet and probably would have been killed if not for the thick pile of raspberry bushes.”
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