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18/09/2012
Biker Found Alive In Ditch Three Days After Crash
A motorcyclist has been found alive in a six-foot deep ditch in South Yorkshire some three days after crashing.
A major police search was launched last Tuesday when the 40-year-old man was reported missing by his partner after he went out on his new motorbike.
Police said he was found seriously injured in the ditch near Thorne, where he had been for three nights.
"All officers feared the worst and it was very pleasing to find the man alive," Insp Rob Cocker said.
The man, from Goole, East Yorkshire, was taken to Doncaster Royal Infirmary where he is being treated for injuries including broken ribs and hypothermia.
Police said the last thing they knew was that the man had been planning to go out riding on his bike last Tuesday.
Insp Cocker said they established that the man, who has not been named, had not used his phone for at least 24 hours nor had it moved from its location in a very unpopulated, large rural area, south of Snaith.
Police then spent two full days searching rivers, reservoirs, fields, ditches and houses, and any other likely location that the man could have been.
Eventually a small amount of debris from a motorbike was found at the A614 near Thorne at 11:20am on Thursday.
The man was then found at 12:14 lying in water in a ditch between East Cowick and Thorne.
Police say they believe the biker crashed into a signpost then travelled 200m further along the carriageway before coming to rest in the ditch.
Insp Cocker said: "This was a large-scale missing person inquiry and required resources being pulled in from Scunthorpe and Hull and the use of the South Yorkshire helicopter for three days."
Adding: "It is a credit to his determination that he is still alive."
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A major police search was launched last Tuesday when the 40-year-old man was reported missing by his partner after he went out on his new motorbike.
Police said he was found seriously injured in the ditch near Thorne, where he had been for three nights.
"All officers feared the worst and it was very pleasing to find the man alive," Insp Rob Cocker said.
The man, from Goole, East Yorkshire, was taken to Doncaster Royal Infirmary where he is being treated for injuries including broken ribs and hypothermia.
Police said the last thing they knew was that the man had been planning to go out riding on his bike last Tuesday.
Insp Cocker said they established that the man, who has not been named, had not used his phone for at least 24 hours nor had it moved from its location in a very unpopulated, large rural area, south of Snaith.
Police then spent two full days searching rivers, reservoirs, fields, ditches and houses, and any other likely location that the man could have been.
Eventually a small amount of debris from a motorbike was found at the A614 near Thorne at 11:20am on Thursday.
The man was then found at 12:14 lying in water in a ditch between East Cowick and Thorne.
Police say they believe the biker crashed into a signpost then travelled 200m further along the carriageway before coming to rest in the ditch.
Insp Cocker said: "This was a large-scale missing person inquiry and required resources being pulled in from Scunthorpe and Hull and the use of the South Yorkshire helicopter for three days."
Adding: "It is a credit to his determination that he is still alive."
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