{"id":83743,"date":"2023-12-14T17:08:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T22:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/?post_type=survivor-stories&p=83743"},"modified":"2025-03-11T14:33:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T19:33:05","slug":"dusty-trails-and-a-sharp-turn-heroic-biker-activates-resqlink-plb-in-walcha-rally-incident","status":"publish","type":"survivor-stories","link":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/survivor-stories\/dusty-trails-and-a-sharp-turn-heroic-biker-activates-resqlink-plb-in-walcha-rally-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Dusty Trails and a Sharp Turn: Heroic Biker Activates ResQLink PLB in Walcha Rally Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

While participating in the Walcha motorcycle rally<\/a>, we headed out on the second day to complete the rally section.<\/p>\n

Conditions were very dusty as we were riding unsealed dirt roads. The pace was fast, as the tracks from the day before were open and flowing.<\/p>\n

About 10 km into the section, four riders bunched up, and visibility became difficult. I was the fourth rider in this group, taking it easy as I had fallen the day before and later found out I had two broken ribs. I was actually considering not riding that day because of the pain.<\/p>\n

We were traveling at 110 km\/h on what seemed to be a reasonably straight dirt road when, due to the dust, a sharp left-hander appeared out of nowhere.<\/p>\n

I barely made the corner, and once the dust cleared, I could only see two \u2013 out of the three \u2013 riders in front, realizing someone didn’t make it. I turned around to look for the rider who had missed the corner. The bike had hit a tree, and Hernan was lying about 10 m from the bike to the left. I checked on him, and he was not in good condition. He was unable to feel his legs.<\/p>\n

So, I activated my ResQLink 400 PLB<\/a> and placed it in clear view of the sky.<\/p>\n

At this time, a UTE of pig hunters emerged from the bush, having witnessed the accident. One of these guys was an ex-paramedic, thank goodness! Once we established a plan, the ex-paramedic stayed with Hernan while a marshal from the event, who had stopped, and I rode to get phone reception to call 000.<\/p>\n

The Westpac rescue helicopter, ambulance, and rescue all arrived around the same time. They were able to arrive half an hour after they activated the locator beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I barely made the corner, and once the dust cleared, I could only see two \u2013 out of the three \u2013 riders in front, realizing someone didn’t make it. I turned around to look for the rider who had missed the corner. The bike had hit a tree, and Hernan was lying about 10 m from the bike to the left. I checked on him, and he was not in good condition, complaining he could not feel his legs, and I just knew this was serious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165943,"featured_media":83742,"template":"","survivor-category":[23],"terrain":[2743],"survivor-event":[2717],"survivor-cause":[125],"survivor-rescue":[2710],"class_list":["post-83743","survivor-stories","type-survivor-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","survivor-category-off-road","terrain-open-road","survivor-event-challenging-terrain","survivor-cause-crash-or-collision","survivor-rescue-westpac-rescue-helicopter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-stories\/83743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/survivor-stories"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"survivor-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-category?post=83743"},{"taxonomy":"terrain","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/terrain?post=83743"},{"taxonomy":"survivor-event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-event?post=83743"},{"taxonomy":"survivor-cause","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-cause?post=83743"},{"taxonomy":"survivor-rescue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-rescue?post=83743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}