Heartbreaking update after tradie’s Bali crash

The family of an Australian man fighting for his life in Bali have had to make a heartbreaking decision after the tradie was involved in a horror crash.

The family of an Australian man fighting for his life in Bali have made the heartbreaking decision to turn off his life support.

Shane Ramsey, a carpenter from Perth, was a groomsmen at his friend’s wedding in Seminyak on August 17.

But things took a horrific turn the following morning when he crashed his scooter into a pole.

He suffered a fractured skull, bleeding on the brain, severe brain damage and blood in his lung.

His distraught mother Catherine Ramsey hopped on the first flight out of Perth to be by her son’s side, where he underwent emergency surgery.

The family of Australian man Shane Ramsey have made the heartbreaking decision to turn off his life support.

However, in a heartbreaking turn of events the family have been left shattered after deciding to switch his life support off in the early hours of Tuesday morning, according to the Daily Mail.

“It was turned off at 3.18am when he was taken to the theatre to give the gift of life,” Ms Ramsey told the publication.

Ms Ramsey told 7News she was “numb” at the prospect of turning off Mr Ramsey’s life support but took solace in knowing that he is an organ donor.

It is understood her son will donate all of his organs to those in urgent need of a transplant.

Speaking to news.com.au from his hospital bed at BIMC Hospital in Kuta last week, Ms Ramsey said her son was on his way to watch the August 18, UFC event with a couple of his mates when the tragedy unfolded.

Shane, who was a groomsman the day before the tragedy, suffered severe brain damage after crashing his scooter into a pole.

“Shane has been around bikes forever. All we can gather is the bike seemed to lose control and he came off and he hit the post with his head unfortunately,” Ms Ramsey said.

“He was with two boys from the wedding and they rang an ambulance.”

The boys were told it would be 10 minutes, however when it didn’t arrive, Ms Ramsey said the pair tried again and were told it would be another 10 minutes.

Shane’s friends haven’t left his side – nor has his mother who flew from Perth the moment she was notified of her son’s horror accident.

“They hailed a local taxi and put him in the back — thankfully he didn’t have any spinal injuries. He was unconscious, though, and when he arrived at the hospital they had to perform emergency surgery.”

Ms Ramsey broke down in tears when she revealed her son has severe brain trauma.

“They removed part of his fractured skull to allow his brain to expand,” she told news.com.au at the time.

At that stage, she said they didn’t know how bad it was and needed to wait for the swelling to go down.

More than $127,000 has since been raised through a GoFundeMe page to support the family – and make arrangements to bring him back home.

He did not have travel insurance, and the medical bills racked up in Bali have set the family back $53,000 for surgery alone.

Ms Ramsey, who arrived to be by her son’s side immediately, hadn’t left his side, nor had his friends.

“Every single one of them have been at the hospital, sat outside since Sunday morning and not one of them have moved,” Ms Ramsey told news.com.au last week.

“They take it in turns to see him because you’re only allowed two people at a time in his room. They stay until they get thrown out.”

The family, who are originally from Lancashire in the UK, moved to Australia in 2007.