{"id":15276,"date":"2010-04-05T10:16:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T17:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=15276"},"modified":"2010-04-15T11:39:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T18:39:44","slug":"another-skater-tows-into-critical-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=15276","title":{"rendered":"Another Skater Tows Into Critical Condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/news\/torontoandgta\/2010\/04\/03\/13454581.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tornoto Sun<\/a><\/em><\/strong> calls it a &#8220;bizarre accident&#8221; but as anyone who follows skateboarding knows, towing behind a car and getting seriously wrecked or killed is really not <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?s=towing+skateboard\" target=\"_blank\">bizarre<\/a><\/strong> at all. It is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?s=towing+skateboard\" target=\"_blank\">clich\u00e9<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Niagara Regional Police said the crash happened around 6:30 p.m. Friday on Greenlane Rd., east of Ontario St., in Lincoln, Ont. . . A 27-year-old Beamsville man was on a skateboard, being towed behind a car driven by a 41-year-old man, police said. . . The boarder, fell and suffered a serious head injury. . . He was taken to McMaster Hospital where he remains in critical condition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Towing kills. It&#8217;s a fact. If you don&#8217;t believe, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?s=towing+skateboard\" target=\"_blank\">click this link.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[<strong>Editors&#8217; Update (April 7, 2010)<\/strong>: according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cnews.canoe.ca\/CNEWS\/Canada\/2010\/04\/07\/13495651-qmi.html?cid=rssnewslast24hours\" target=\"_blank\">Canoe.ca<\/a><\/strong> the 27-year-old man who was hospitalized after being injured while towing died Tuesday, April 6, 2010 of his injuries. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cnews.canoe.ca\/CNEWS\/Canada\/2010\/04\/07\/13495651-qmi.html?cid=rssnewslast24hours\" target=\"_blank\">Canoe.ca<\/a><\/strong>.]<\/p>\n<p>[<strong>April 15, 2010 Update<\/strong>: Joseph Cormier, 41, the man driving the car that towed the 27-year-old has been charged with &#8220;criminal negligence causing death and dangerous driving causing death.&#8221; <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2535967\">The Standard<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.]<br \/>\n<strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/news\/torontoandgta\/2010\/04\/03\/13454581.html\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Sun<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tornoto Sun calls it a &#8220;bizarre accident&#8221; but as anyone who follows skateboarding knows, towing behind a car and getting seriously wrecked or killed is really not bizarre at all. It is clich\u00e9. Niagara Regional Police said the crash happened around 6:30 p.m. Friday on Greenlane Rd., east of Ontario St., in Lincoln, Ont. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15276"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15276"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15532,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15276\/revisions\/15532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}