SERIES OF CROSS COUNTRY RACES
BETWEEN EIGHTH AND NINTH
STREET.
IN LESS THAN 5 MINUTES WE WILL
TAKE YOU BEHIND ONE OF THE
CITY'S NEWEST CONCERT VENUES.
WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE WHAT'S
OPENING UP JUST IN TIME FOR THE
SUPER BOWL.
BUT FIRST, A SLEDDING
ACCIDENT HAS LEFT A BOY IN
CRITICAL IN -- IN IN CRITICAL
CONDITION.
SIMON COGHLAN WAS HOSPITALIZED
AFTER HIS SLED HIT A TREE.
ANGELA DAVIS SPOKE WITH THE
BOY'S FATHER.
HE HAD BEEN TALKING ABOUT
THE CAMPING TRIP FOR WEEKS AND
EVERY DAY WAS EXCITEMENT.
Reporter: A WEEKEND TRIP TO
THE BOY SCOUT CAMP AND WESTERN
WISCONSIN SOUNDED LIKE A DREAM
COME TRUE TO SIMON.
EVEN HIS BEST FRIEND WAS GOING.
THEY WERE TOLD IT WAS A
FRESH COAT OF POWDER SO BRING
YOUR SLED.
Reporter: LIKE MOST CHILDREN
WHO LOVE THE SNOW, THEY WERE
ENJOYING GOING DOWN THE HILLS
BUT SHORTLY AFTER THEY SET OUT
WITH OTHER SCOUTS, SIMON'S
FRIEND CALLED OUT FOR HELP.
HE APPARENTLY WENT FACE
FIRST INTO A TREE AND FRACTURED
HIS SKULL IN SEVERAL PLACES,
AND BROKE HIS NOSE.
Reporter: DOCTORS AT
GILLETTE HEALTHCARE SAY SIMON
ALSO SUFFERED A TRAUMATIC BRAIN
INJURY.
WHEN YOU HAVE A RAMBUNCTIOUS
SEVEN-YEAR-OLD BOY, AND HE'S
GOING OUT AND YOU ARE NOT WITH
HIM, YOU KNOW YOU SAY DON'T BE
THAT PARENT THAT IS OVER
WORRIED.
Reporter: RESEARCHERS AT
GILLETTE HAVE STUDIED INJURIES
FROM SLIDING ACCIDENTS.
THEIR CONCLUSION: BEFORE
HEADING TO A SLEDDING HILL,
CHILDREN SHOULD STRAP ON A
HELMET.
I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS YOUNG,
NO MATTER WHAT YOU DID, IF YOU
ARE WEARING A HELMET, IT WASN'T
COOL.
SITTING HERE RIGHT NOW, IT'S
JUST SO PAINFULLY OBVIOUS HOW
IMPORTANT HELMET SAFETY IS.
Reporter: ANGELA DAVIS, WCCO
4 NEWS.
