A British biker had to have his leg amputated after being smashed in a hit-and-run while on a tropical holiday for a motorbike event.
Jordan Pearson, 28, was in Miami, Florida when the hit-and-run happened and leaving him stranded in the US with horrific injuries.
Mum Leighan Pearson had bought her son a surprise ticket to the GVO Biking Event earlier this month.
However, the trip of a lifetime turned into a nightmare when a car smashed into Jordan’s bike, before speeding off and leaving doctors battling to save his life.
His mum said that Jordan then phoned her screaming for help.
Leighan told the Daily Record: “Jordan called me and said ‘I’m sorry mum, my legs hanging off the side of the road and I think I’m going to die here’.”
She added: “I’m in despair. As a mother, I decided to surprise Jordan on Christmas morning with a ticket to the Miami event not knowing what nightmare was to come.
“Jordan was just minding his own business when a car skipped a red light, smashed into his side and just took him out of the game. He said his life flashed before his eyes.”
She continued: “He lay for one hour with no assistance at the side of the road. No ambulance came for him until a kind gentleman stopped to help. Jordan had to throw himself in the back of his car and he quickly took Jordan to the nearest hospital where he lay on a floor and they wrapped him up in a sheet.”
As the news came through, Leighan’s friends and family helped her to buy a flight to Miami to be with Jordan.
He was transferred to Miami’s Jackson Ryder Hospital where surgeons quickly decided that they had to amputate his left leg below the knee in order to save Jordan’s life.
He is now preparing for a third operation.
She said: “I was in Heathrow to get my connecting flight when I received another call from a medical assistant in Miami asking for consent to amputate as Jordan was refusing to give any consent for the operation to take place.
"As a mother, this by far had to be the hardest decision I’ve ever been asked to make on the other end of the phone hundreds of miles away and not knowing the extent of the injury myself.”
Leighan’s friends have now set up a GoFundMe appeal for donations towards Jordan’s massive medical expenses which she says could be ‘hundreds of thousands of pounds’.
She said: “I won’t be able to bring him home until he has healed and I’ve been sleeping on a chair in the hospital just now but it’s freezing. He has some insurance but they are being too slow at the moment and not coming back to me.”
