Ipswich,SD : South Dakota teen embraces contact sports after crash injury on December, Sunday 24th 2017

Daniel Braun has every reason to avoid contact sports.
Braun, a junior at Ipswich High School, is a key cog in the Tigers football, basketball and track and field teams. That’s pretty good for a guy whose high school career started out in a near-miss.

Braun was a passenger in a car that was involved in a head-on collision when he was in eighth grade, the Aberdeen American News reported . The crash resulted in a broken neck, massive internal injuries and a three-month stint in a halo.

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“We were coming back from a (Minnesota) Vikings game,” Braun said. “It was snowing and the roads were kind of icy. We were going maybe 50 miles an hour. Another car was overdriving the conditions and came sliding into our lane. Hit us head on.”

Braun was in the back seat of the car and, with no air bag, sustained to most serious injuries. His dad, who was driving, had some glass cuts on his arm. His sister in the front passenger seat broke her thumb.

“I had the most fun,” Braun said, wryly.

Braun sustained a C2 fracture in his neck and a “bucket handle tear” in his abdomen.

“They were pumping blood into me, maybe two liters, but it just kept building up in my stomach,” he said.

Doctors had to make an emergency incision through Braun’s abdomen to find and repair the tear. Once that was done, they stabilized his neck with a halo, a device that is screwed to an individual’s skull to immobilize the neck. This was done to allow the fractured vertebrae to heal naturally.

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South Dakota teen embraces contact sports after crash injury