Dave Martin, Village Administrator, seriously injured in motorcycle accident

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

Sun­bury Vil­lage Admin­is­tra­tor Dave Mar­tin was in a motor­cy­cle acci­dent Sun­day evening, Novem­ber 17, on Ohio 95 near Fredrick­town. Mar­tin had struck a deer. When first respon­ders found him, he was lay­ing by the road; his motor­cy­cle and the deer were in a cornfield.

A Life-Flight heli­copter took Mar­tin to Grant Hos­pi­tal in Colum­bus where he was admit­ted to the Inten­sive Care Unit. In addi­tion to head injuries (Mar­tin was wear­ing a hel­met) nine of his ribs are bro­ken. Six on the right side are bro­ken in two places.

Dur­ing surgery on the Mon­day fol­low­ing the acci­dent doc­tors inserted four tita­nium plates and 37 screws. Mar­tin was on a ven­ti­la­tor and breath­ing tube as of Wednes­day evening; he was off the ven­ti­la­tor by Friday.

Uncon­firmed reports from Sun­bury Vil­lage offi­cials, who are in daily con­tact with Martin’s fam­ily, indi­cate that Mar­tin will be in the hos­pi­tal for two to four weeks.

Area res­i­dents who would like to fol­low Martin’s progress and leave mes­sages may log on to < caringbridge.org/visit/davemartinsunbury >.

Posted by Gary Henery on Nov 28 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.