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Written by CMG Staff on Thursday, 17 June 2010
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Bali, where Canadian woman is in hospital after motorcycle crash.

A British Columbia family is raising money to bring home their 31-year-old daughter, who was injured in a motorcycle collision in Bali.

Kobe Sturton was vacationing with her boyfriend when their motorcycle was hit by a vehicle. Sturton fell off and was then reportedly hit by another vehicle.

Now, she's in a Bali hospital in stable condition, but her injuries are serious. She has an uncommon blood type and may need more blood.

Members of Sturton's family in Nanaimo, B.C., are planning fundraisers, and an account has been set up at Scotiabank for donations that will help bring her home and may even pay for blood donors to go to Bali.

Sturton will go to Nanaimo Regional General Hospital when she is brought back to Canada.

Meanwhile, in Nova Scotia, a cellphone helped RCMP find the body of a motorcyclist who crashed his 2004 Yamaha on Wednesday.

Police said they found the body of the 48-year-old rider in a ditch not far from his starting point of Hammonds Plain, Nova Scotia. He had left that morning for Bridgewater but wasn't found until nearly midnight.

The motorcyclist had taken his cellphone with him, and the phone had a GPS service. Police contacted his cellphone company and were led to the ditch southwest of Halifax.

RCMP are trying to figure out why the man crashed.



Users' Comments (2)
I have a bad habit of turning off the cellphone before I go riding. Perhaps I should change that.
Posted by Gummiente
17-06-2010 09:48
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The other thing for folks to do is make a phone entry under the name ICE (In Case of Emergency) and make the phone number someone who should be contacted. EMT will look for that name on your cell phone. Coincidental to the article my only next of kin in Canada lives in Hammonds Plains.
Posted by Charlie-brm
17-06-2010 10:41
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