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Dirt Bike Rider Badly Injured In Crash While Allegedly Performing A 'Wheelie' Dirt Bike Rider Badly Injured In Crash While Allegedly Performing A 'Wheelie'
Dirt Bike Rider Badly Injured In Crash While Allegedly Performing A 'Wheelie' A New Haven dirt-bike rider is in apparent paralysis following a motor vehicle accident on Monday, Sept. 14, just before midnight. The man, who has not been publicly identified, was allegedly riding without the bike’s headlight on and doing a wheelie when the collision happened, New Haven Police said. The crash occurred on Canal Street near Foote Street in the Dixwell neighborhood of New Haven. The 27-year-old dirt bike rider was going southbound on Canal Street when an oncoming northbound motorist in a sedan “started a left turn maneuver” onto Foote, police said. They collided in the inter…

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by Kristin Palpini
Lifestyle
$126G Pours In For Westport Mom Crushed By Tree In Nor'easter $126G Pours In For Westport Mom Crushed By Tree In Nor'easter
$126G Pours In For Westport Mom Crushed By Tree In Nor'easter Click here for an earlier story: Westport Mother Of Three Paralyzed After Being Hit By Tree In Storm The Westport community is coming together to help a local mom who was horribly injured in the March 7 Nor'easter. Victoria Gouletas -- a member of the Zoning Board of Appeals and a real estate attorney -- suffered many broken bones in her neck, back and sternum when a tree snapped and fell on her March 7. She is paralyzed from the chest down and although she retained complete mental capacity as well s the use of her head, neck and arms, the prognosis is that she will never walk again. More…

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by Cecilia Levine
Lifestyle
Fairfield County Mother Of Three Paralyzed After Being Hit By Tree In Storm Fairfield County Mother Of Three Paralyzed After Being Hit By Tree In Storm
Fairfield County Mother Of Three Paralyzed After Being Hit By Tree In Storm A Westport mother has a very different life than a week ago after a tree hit her head and back, leaving the real estate attorney and Zoning Board of Appeals member paralyzed from the chest down. Victoria Gouletas, was outside her home during the March 7 Nor'easter when an overhead tree snapped, fell and crushed her, wrote her friend Suzanne Karpick on the GoFundMe page she created to help the family cope with their new way of life. "The tree hit her head and back, leaving her with multiple fractures in her neck, left scapula and sternum," Karpick wrote. "Additionally, it brok…

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by Kathy Reakes