Herron Talks About Crash, Injuries
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“There’s a kind of numbness to tell the truth, didn’t want to think about it.,” said John Herron as he looked as his father’s damaged bicycle, the one he was riding when he crashed Sunday. “Got to a turn came over a rise suddenly there was a turn coming up on the road. A 90 degrees turn, [I] made about 80 degrees, didn’t make it all the way,” said Senator Roy Herron. The democratic state senator from Dresden estimates he was riding at about 30 miles per hour when he slammed into a bed of gravel. “I landed into this field stayed on top of the bike as long as I could. [It] wasn’t too long be for I was thrown off the front according to what my friend said, landed on shoulder and back,” said Senator Herron. From what he can remember, for about three minutes he laid in an Obion County field unconscious until a couple of UTM students pulled over and drove the senator to safety. After breaking nine ribs and a collar bone, he is now strapped in a brace that prevents him from moving too much. “The thing that worried them was, a little concerned about was a lung partially collapsed so they life flighted me to Vanderbilt,” explained Sen. Herron. Herron was cleared to leave the hospital less than 24 hours later, but instead of hitting the bed, he went to work in the legislature. “He doesn’t like to portray anytime of weakness,” explained John Herron. Now the senator said he is most thankful for him helmet and admits it saved his life.”I’m blessed that I had on my bike helmet nothing wrong with my head that wasn’t wrong before,” he said.
