Biker died in my arms, says Weymouth mum (From Dorset Echo)

Biker died in my arms, says Weymouth mum

8:50am Wednesday 22nd July 2009

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A DISTRAUGHT mum has told how she cradled a biker in her arms as he lay dying on the road.

Aaron Spring, 26, of Weymouth, died when he crashed his Honda motorcycle into a wall in Chickerell Road close to the Admiral Hardy pub.

An off-duty fireman found him outside his house and was helped by Miss Crowley, who lived across the road as he gave first aid But Mr Spring was confirmed dead at the scene by ambulance men.

Miss Crowley was at home making her Sunday lunch with her daughter and her friends when she heard a bang outside her home in Chickerell Road.

She joined the off duty fireman as he tried to save Mr Spring’s life.

Miss Crowley said the fireman could not find a pulse and they felt no heartbeat but she found a faint pulse and spoke to Mr Spring as she lay next to him.

She said: “I was making the Sunday lunch when I heard the bang. I looked out of the window and dropped what was in my hands and screamed at the kids to call an ambulance.

“I didn’t look twice I just ran across the road with no shoes on.

“I ran over and laid down beside him.”

Miss Crowley said Mr Spring’s helmet came off during the crash and the piece of wall that he hit was knocked across the pavement and in front of the next house.

She said: “I kept talking to him but he wasn’t conscious.

“The off-duty fireman could not find a pulse but I found a slight pulse in his arm.

“He was getting cold so I was screaming ‘get an ambulance.’ “And I was holding his hand and cuddling him with blankets around him.

“He had probably already died but that faint pulse must have been the last running around his body.

“We checked for a heartbeat but could not find one at all.”

“I’ll never forget his eyes."

Miss Crowley – whose son Thomas, 11, is still recovering the use of his legs after coming off his bicycle – said she has agonised for the family since the man’s death.

She said: “My heart has actually broken for that poor kid’s mum.

“To think of anybody getting that knock is the most horrible thing and he is only a kid.

“He really is only a kid.”

Miss Crolley’s daughter Mary Ann Crowley, 13, was at home with her mum and friends Amy Biddle, 13 and Chantelle Jackson, 14.

Mary Ann said: “We went outside and he was just lying there.

“It was horrible.”

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