A 33-year-old Maryland man has extensive physical wounds to show from a motorcycle crash, but he says the more painful part of the accident was losing his beloved girlfriend. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.
A 33-year-old Maryland man has extensive physical wounds to show from a motorcycle crash, but he says the more painful part of the accident was losing his beloved girlfriend.
Carlos Vinicius De Oliveria, 33, was driving a motorcycle along Sandy Spring Road near Birmingham Drive in Burtonsville on a July night when he crashed into an SUV. He suffered life-threatening injuries, inclyding a broken hip and leg. His passenger, and girlfriend, 33-year-old Ebonie Cray, passed away from injuries in the crash.
What haunts De Oliveria to this day is what Cray had said prior to getting on his bike for the last time.
“Somebody went up to her and said, ‘Aren’t you afraid of getting on the bike?’ She grabbed my arm and said, ‘I trust him with my life.’ Because of the accident, she’s no longer here,” De Oliveria said. “I ask God, why not take me instead of Ebonie?”
De Oliveria, a single dad of three girls, suffered a brain injury, kidney damage and collapsed lungs. He spent weeks in a coma and nearly died three times.
He had driven motorcycles for 15 years, but has now decided to hang up his helmet. He just got released from a rehabilitation center last week.
“I think I’ll stick with my Chevelle as my toy vehicle,” he said.
So far this year, 51 people have died in motorcycle crashed in Maryland.
“A lot of people ride. It’s in their blood… if you tap a bike, it could end a life,” De Oliveria said.
“The one thing I learned, people come through when you need them most.”
De Oliveria’s friends set up an online donation site to help him pay for his medical bills.
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