DIRT AND TRAIL

BACK IN THE
SADDLE!
An inspirational story about a man and his
passion for bikes... get those issues ready.
Let’s start here…the accident. In November 2005 Jacob Kruger had
a major motor vehicle accident when a motorist in the lane next to him,
swerved into him. He sustained serious injuries and was in a coma for
almost a month, taking just over three months to become lucid again.
The serious physical injuries resulted in his loss of sight. Sadly, Jacob’s
wife was killed in the accident.
Doctors told Jacob that his brain moved around so much inside
his scull during the accident that his optical nerve tore where it was
attached to his brain – this caused his blindness.
He eventually left the hospital in March 2006, and started orientation
and mobility training, which included getting used to walking around
with a white cane, doing some cooking and so forth. The orientation and
mobility training helped Jacob, however, the greatest enlightenment for
him was finding out how to make use of technology without his sight,
and getting back to using a computer. Since Jacob is a web developer
and had basically lived on the internet since it became available in
South Africa around 1996, re-learning how to use a computer was very
important to him.
Jacob is completelly blind.
The Tattoo says it all...
66 DIRT & TRAIL MAGAZINE MARCH 2018