A charitable food-run went south on Sunday after a group of bikers from the Wheels In The Sky Middelburg chapter took to the N11 to hand out food parcels.<\/p>\n
Adriaan Windell, husband and father of two, lost control of his motorcycle and violently struck a tree, causing fractures in both his legs, arms and ribs, a dislocation of his hip and severe head trauma.<\/p>\n
Club President Michael Longuiero, who has been acting as a spokesperson for the Windell family, told www.mobserver.co.za<\/strong> earlier this week that Adriaan was admitted to the Witbank Provincial Hospital where he is currently lying in critical condition.<\/p>\n Windell\u2019s wife Maraai cannot visit Adriaan due to lockdown regulations.<\/p>\n The Wheels In The Sky biking community have gone down on their knees in support for the family, asking for prayers and financial support.<\/p>\n Mr Longuiero says the club has managed to raise some funds for Adriaan\u2019s medical expenses that so far have covered the costs of two pints of blood, a CT scan and a neurologist to assess Adriaan.<\/p>\n Anyone who wishes to donate to the Windell family can contact Michael Longuiero on 078 322 0853.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An accident, which has left Middelburg resident Adriaan Windell in a critical condition, has ripped the world from under the feet of his family and the biking community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":120920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Sjani Campher","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[24575,24576,10010,24577,12898,10333,24579,24578],"class_list":["post-120919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-adriaan-windell","tag-biking-accident","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-biker-critical-after-accident","tag-middelburg-news","tag-trusted-news","tag-wheels-in-the-sky-middelburg","tag-wheels-in-the-sky-mpumalanga-chapter"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["adriaan windell","biking accident","local news","middelburg biker critical after accident","middelburg news","trusted news","wheels in the sky middelburg","wheels in the sky mpumalanga chapter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}