PORTLAND Oregon (KPTV) — A 23-year-old Portland man is in important situation after being struck by a car in southeast Portland on Sunday.
Joshua Gourneau’s household mentioned he was crossing the road at Southeast 122nd Avenue and Southeast Stark Avenue at about 6 p.m.
His older brothers, Matthew Gourneau and Jason Gourneau, had been on their strategy to choose him up. They had been speaking to him on the telephone. Then they heard a loud noise and the decision dropped.
“I simply couldn’t consider it, I didn’t suppose it was him after I first noticed somebody laying there, as a result of we had been simply speaking to him,” Matthew Gourneau mentioned. “He simply seemed so unhealthy, blood in every single place, and he wasn’t respiratory good, and my different brother jumped out to present him CPR.”
Joshua Gourneau was taken to OHSU, the place the medical doctors warned his household to arrange for the worst, his household mentioned. He’d suffered damaged ribs, fractured bones in his cranium and face and a damaged pelvis.
Jason Gourneau mentioned his brother was nonetheless preventing, regardless of the grim analysis. However seeing him so injured has been devastating for his entire household, he mentioned.
“It’s so onerous seeing him like this,” Jason Gourneau mentioned. “It simply crushes their spirit seeing him with the tubes in his mouth and his head.”
“We’re hoping to assist with medical payments, something that he wants sooner or later as a result of now we have heard about individuals popping out of comas in several methods, and moreover that, we don’t know what components will really work, so and we simply want slightly assist,” Jason Gourneau mentioned.
Police mentioned the driving force of the car remained on the scene and has not been charged with something.