To deliver the message
was the son of Jean Pierre, or JP as he called himself, on the
Facebook site
, which was opened by the Canadian family to keep those interested updated on the status of the trip. “The Petit family is informing everyone who is following the journey on the site
Cycle4Eveline
– we read in the Facebook post of June 13 – that our JP, husband, father, grandfather and hero, did not survive the injuries sustained in the accident”.
L’
accident
was held on June 9th along I-29 17 km north of Brookings, a small town in South Dakota. The 53-year-old Canadian rode his bike,
in the side strip
to the right of the lane if a
truck
, also heading south, met him. An ambulance rescued the multiple injured cyclist and transported him to nearby Brookings Hospital where he received initial emergency treatment. It was later decided to move to the Sioux Falls facility on Monday
June 13th
Jean-Pierre is dead. Official investigations to reconstruct the dynamics of the accident are still ongoing.
Jean-Pierre
so he cut short his journey when there was little more than
650 kilometers
to the goal. In the meantime, according to the updates, the donors had also paid
17 thousand dollars
. “His gesture leaves us an incredible legacy – joins the family on Facebook – like his recent support for his son and his fundraising plan to support Eveline’s kidney transplant and other children in need of nephrology care.”
The lone cyclist saved other lives with his death: his organs were transplanted.