Best Wishes and Prayers to Our Friend and Injured Rider at Driveway Tonite

Tuesday Nighter Regular Kevin Underhill

Race reporting tonite is about the furtherest thing from my mind right now, so my apologies for my melancholy. There was a pretty bad accident in the 4/5 race tonite. It unfortunately involved one of our LTC Tuesday Nighter riders, Kevin Underhill (Bike Journal handle – daunhiru). It was one of the worst accidents I’ve witnessed. Many, many seasoned racers were shaken tonite, the race was neutralized, then stopped as EMS were called. Kevin was rushed to Brackenridge Hospital in critical condition and just, at this writing, completed over 2 1/2 of surgery on his face and head. He is in the ICU, post-surgery.

It was a very scary thing to have to see, made all the more heartwrenching after I found out it was one of our own. LTC’s Hector Garcia was in the race as well and I saw him attending to Kevin (next lap around), before I knew it was Kevin. There is a thread started on the TXBRA site (forum) regading Kevin and the accident. Please keep Kevin in your thoughts and prayers. He is THE nicest most humble guy on our rides. He had been coming to the Driveway several weeks and meeting lots of folks in preparation of his inaugural ride tonite. Let’s hope he has a good night in the ICU and comes out much better in the AM.

I’ll get with James and see if there might be something we might want to do as a club for Kevin. He’s a really nice guy, and will certainly be dealing with some serious issues ahead.