The 20-year-old son of Pipeline browsing nice Shawn Briley is “fighting for his life” within the ICU after he was “pinned between two vehicles” in Hawaii over the weekend and “sustained serious and extensive injuries.”
Dakota Briley, a surfer primarily based on the North Shore of Oahu, was struck on the aspect of the island’s Kamehameha Freeway and hospitalized with “multiple fractures in his legs, pelvis, ribs, and skull,” in accordance with a GoFundMe web page arrange on behalf of the athlete, who additionally endured “unthinkable injuries” to his backbone.
“Please continue to pray for our Dakota, he’s in really rough shape and needs a miracle from god,” Dakota’s brother Ryder wrote in an Instagram Story Monday.
“His ribs have been crushed, his spine is severed and broken in multiple places, the back of his skull has been crushed, fractured in over 8 places, from the hip down his legs have been crushed. He needs a miracle, please pray for God to make him whole again.”
As of Tuesday, greater than $51,000 has been raised, surpassing the fundraiser’s authentic purpose of $50,000.
“[Dakota’s] incredible medical team were able to stabilize his legs and are now working tirelessly on multiple surgeries to the rest of his body,” the GoFundMe web page famous.
“… Our hope is that God performs a miracle.”
Ryder added in a separate Instagram slide Monday that Dakota is “the strongest person” he is aware of.
“This boy is a true warrior, the strongest person I know, so stubborn, I know you’re not going anywhere,” he wrote of Dakota. “Keep fighting for us.”
The elder Briley received the Tavarua Tube Basic in 1995.
