‘His Bike Flew Over a Fence’

YOU NEED TO KNOW

• Dustin Hayes crashed his motorcycle in Arizona on Friday, January 2.

• Wife Brooke received a crash detection alert on her phone, which shared her location from her helmet

• Brooke noted that her husband’s bike went over the fence and was somewhere no one could see him, telling Fox 10: “I wouldn’t know where he was and where he was… I don’t think people would find him until the morning.”

A woman in Arizona said she saved her husband’s life thanks to an accident detection alert sent from his motorcycle helmet.

According to the local media outlet, Dustin Hayes crashed his motorcycle on New River Road between Carefree Highway and I-17 on Friday, January 2, around 9 p.m. Fox 10Phoenix.

Thanks to Dustin’s Cardo Packtalk Pro Bluetooth device on his helmet, his wife, Brooke Hayes, was able to tell something was wrong after receiving an alert.

“I got a text on my phone saying ‘urgent’ and I opened it immediately,” Brooke told Fox 10.

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“We have the Cardo system on our helmets,” Brooke said. GoFundMe page he created. “He warned me that he might have had an accident and dropped the needle.”

She added that she did not answer her phone calls before going out to find her husband. He then called the police while he was on the road.

“I arrived at the Pinterest point and saw nothing,” he continued on the GoFundMe page. “I had a gut feeling and walked down the road with my flashlight. I saw his bike, I ran and found him. Passing cars couldn’t see him and his bike flew over the fence.”

“He was in extremely bad shape. I’ll never get that image out of my mind,” he told Fox 10, which reported that Dustin was found off New River Road where no one could see him.

Police arrived 10 minutes later and were surprised Dustin was still alive “after lying there for over 30 minutes,” Brooke said.

“I didn’t know where he was or at what point he was,” Brooke told Fox 10. “I don’t think people will find it until the morning.”

She told the press that she believed her husband had been thrown off his bike while trying to escape from an animal.

Brooke said Dustin, who was in an induced coma, “broke everything.”

The motorcyclist suffered 20 broken bones, including his neck and spine, and suffered a concussion and brain haemorrhage.

His wife says she is grateful her husband is alive and that he is expected to emerge from a medically induced coma.

“I found him and now I can say this forever: ‘I saved your life. Do the dishes, I saved your life,'” Brooke told Fox 10.

The GoFundMe page has raised more than $8,000 of a $9,000 goal so far.

“You have a long, long road ahead of you,” Brooke wrote in the statement. “And I need everyone to come together for him like he did for you. He won’t be able to work for a very long time.”

She added: “The next few months are going to be challenging enough with surgery, rehab, doctor’s appointments, etc. If you can please donate towards our rent, electricity, water, everything, my family would be so grateful.”

PEOPLE has contacted the Phoenix Police Department for comment

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