Family searching for good Samaritan who helped unconscious teenager after scooter accident at Kirkham Skate Park

A TEENAGE boy and his parents, from Camden Park, are urgently searching for the good Samaritan who potentially saved his life when he ruptured his spleen in scooter accident.

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A TEENAGE boy and his parents, from Camden Park, are urgently searching for the good Samaritan who potentially saved his life after a scooter accident so they can thank her for her quick-thinking actions.

Ethan Wright, 13, normally always wears a helmet when riding his scooter but he took it off for a few seconds to perform a trick, a double whip over a box, for a video his friends were filming at Kirkham Skate Park.

Ethan Wright, of Camden Park, pictured riding his scooter. He is recovering from an accident which happened while he was doing on a trick on his scooter.

While completing the trick, he fell off his scooter, hit his head on the concrete and was knocked unconscious during the school holidays earlier this month, on July 4.

Little did everyone know but the scooter’s handlebars had also struck Ethan and ruptured his spleen, causing a grade four tear, as well as internal bleeding.

His concerned friends tried to revive him and help him get up when the mystery woman, possibly named Fiona, rushed over and made sure he did not move until help arrived.

“If Ethan got up and moved, it could have been disastrous,’’ Dad David Wright said.

“Ethan’s friends were in panic mode because he was fitting.’’

A bystander John Ferguson phoned 000 and the family has since been able to find him through Facebook and thank him for his actions.

The woman kept Ethan still until paramedics arrived and this meant the tear on his spleen, which was hanging on by a thread, did not get any worse.

Ethan is warning children about the dangers of not wearing a helmet.

Ethan and his dad David want to thank the good Samaritan.

“She held Ethan on the chest and was instrumental in making sure he did not move and there was no further damage,’’ Mr Wright said.

Ethan said: “I’d like to find her and personally thank her for helping me because if it wasn’t for the lady and John I wouldn’t be here.’’

Ethan was rushed by ambulance to Campbelltown Hospital where he was assessed and a CT scan performed before he was transferred to Randwick Children’s Hospital where he had to lie flat in bed for five days to see if the bleeding would stop, and so the spleen could slowly begin to repair itself.

The first 36 hours were crucial and his distraught parents anxiously waited and hoped he would recover.

After five days in hospital, Ethan was able to come home on Saturday, July 8.

Now, four weeks since the accident, Ethan is recuperating at home and a CT scan of his skull came back clear with no sign of a brain injury.

“We are so relieved and it’s a reminder that when we wake up every day we should tell everyone we love that we love them,’’ Mrs Wright said.

Dad David Wright is overjoyed Ethan will make a full recovery. Picture: Angelo Velardo

Ethan, who is in Year 7 at St Gregory’s College, Campbelltown, is expected to return to school in early August.

Mr Wright said Ethan would take three months off before he could ride his scooter again and he should make a full recovery in six months.

Ethan almost always wears a helmet when riding his scooter and has used his experiences to become an advocate to prevent childhood injuries and to warn other children and their families about the dangers of not wearing a helmet.

“Being in hospital is not fun and if wearing a helmet makes the difference between being in hospital and not, it’s worth it,’’ he said.

Ethan talked about his experiences at the launch of the Child Safety Good Practice Guide, launched at Neuroscience Research Australia, this month.

Mrs Wright said the family had also been overwhelmed and very appreciative of the support they had received not only from family and friends but from the general community.

“Even Ethan’s current school principal from St Gregory’s College and his last school principal from Camden Public School have contacted us to wish him well,’’ she said.

“It’s wonderful to know you live in such a nice community where we all support one another.’’