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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The household of a well-known section businessman is trying to get him backmost connected his feet. Robert Hugues was progressive successful a motorcycle mishap connected March 7.
It could instrumentality a twelvemonth earlier helium walks again.
Robert Hugues is known successful Fresno for owning Tower Automotive Repair. Ever since helium got successful a large motorcycle accident, it’s been each hands connected deck.
“It’s brainsick due to the fact that I had conscionable talked to my dada connected the telephone similar 45 minutes earlier his mishap due to the fact that my duplicate sister and I conscionable landed successful Vegas,” Robert Hugues’ daughter, Sophia, said.
Robert and his friends were riding motorcycles erstwhile Clovis Police accidental a motortruck pulled a U-turn successful beforehand of them connected Ashlan Avenue.
“He had a breached pelvis and helium had besides fractured it successful a fewer antithetic spots. And past helium had a bladder injury. He besides received a traumatic encephalon injury. And helium had immoderate issues with fractured ribs,” Sophia said.
Robert has had 3 surgeries and astir mislaid his near leg. Sophia was anxious to get backmost to Fresno, to beryllium by her dad’s side.
“It was decidedly overwhelming because, you know, similar your dada is specified a beardown fig successful your life, you don't truly privation to spot him similar that," Sophia said.
Robert credits a helmet helium bought with his girl months earlier for redeeming his life.
“We had matching helmets that we conscionable bought past summer. So I'm truly gladsome that we did that,” Sophia said.
Also getting a telephone astir the motorcycle clang was Robert's son. He was 1 of the archetypal radical to hop successful the car aft learning what happened.
“I recovered retired done a telephone telephone and past helium had conscionable went straight to the hospital. That was hard. But we conscionable each came unneurotic and we got done it,” Robert Hugues Jr. said.
Now they're coming unneurotic to marque definite their dad’s concern stays open.
“We knew what our dada would privation america to bash and what helium does privation america to bash erstwhile we speech to him. So it makes it easy,” Robert Hugues Jr. said.
Also acrophobic are Robert's loyal customers.
“Mainly, I conscionable thought astir his kids archetypal and however they must've felt,” Robert’s person and lawsuit Porfidio Yslas said.
Right now, Robert is receiving attraction astatine Covenant Post Acute. He has a agelong and grueling betterment up arsenic helium learns to locomotion and beryllium autarkic again.
“Rehab to benignant of larn however to usage the restroom by himself and to ablution and to benignant of beryllium capable to modulation into sitting successful a wheelchair truthful that mode helium tin travel present and ticker implicit the store again,” Sophia said.
Robert's friends, household and customers are rallying down him. They each cognize 1 day, he’ll beryllium backmost to work.
“He’s present for everybody successful the vicinity that’s astir here. He helps everybody. Everybody knows him astir here,” Yslas said.
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