“Everyone has to deal with a bump, and it’s how you deal with the bump yourself that defines the rest of your life.”
The first thing Anthony Zhang remembers after the crash is lying on a stretcher wondering why his boots were so tight.
Roughly six months later on May 13, Zhang steered his wheelchair out the front door of his ground-level apartment in Longmont to meet Hernandez, as she arrived home from work. Zhang is a former Boulder resident, who now lives in Longmont. That’s why as he steered his white Ducati sportbike down the road just before noon on that sunny November day, he knew about the upcoming cattle guards that were about 2 miles ahead. Riding motorcycles in front of him were Hernandez and their friend Jordan Sarco, who was 20 at the time. As Zhang talked with Hernandez via Bluetooth, he was warning her about the grated road obstacle and giving her advice on how to approach it.
Flipping back in the other direction, Sarco and Hernandez found Zhang lying on the roadway. One of Zhang’s legs was slung over his toppled motorcycle, his eyes barely open. Hernandez frantically parked her bike, but because the road was on an incline, it fell on top of her. She was so full of adrenaline that she pushed it off without a thought to get to Zhang.
A motorist, who was a retired military medic, also saw the aftermath of the crash. She instructed Sarco and Hernandez to stay calm and keep Zhang, who was fading in and out of consciousness, alert. According to a Colorado State Patrol crash report, Broomfield had been traveling westbound on Buckhorn Road, near milepost 13. The report said the operator of vehicle 1, identified as Broomfield, “failed to negotiate a right curve.” Broomfield’s vehicle exited the left side of the northbound lane and continued to travel in a northwestern direction, entering the path of travel of the operator of vehicle 2, identified as Zhang.
Fellow coworker Eric Enstrom encouraged Zhang to get into riding. By February 2018, Zhang had bought his second bike: a Ducati motorcycle., Enstrom lost a foot when he was reportedly struck by vehicle while crossing through a Longmont intersection at South Hover Street and Ken Pratt Boulevard. So when Kristen Broomfield said it was late afternoon on Nov. 7 and he still wasn’t home, she started to get worried. She had been texting and calling him, but he wasn’t answering.
Jeffery was a caring person who loved animals. The couple’s 17-year-old tuxedo cat, Billy, died in April. Anthony Zhang poses for a portrait at Flanders Park in Longmont on Wednesday, May 18, 2022. Zhang, 23, survived a motorcycle crash in Larimer County on Nov. 7. “After you’re down at the bottom at one, the only place to go is up,” Zhang said. “If you start going down more, it’s not easy to get out of that pit.”
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