Is this the new Lawrence Angwin??
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 12:07 pmNot that I want to curse the boy and we don't know the full story but three accidents in three months, coincidence??
As copied from today's Age....
It is often said that virile young men are accidents waiting to happen. Beau Dowler is different. He is an accident that has happened. Three times.
The gifted Hawthorn tall forward - selected in the first round of the national draft late last year despite a serious car accident only weeks earlier in which his pelvis was fractured in four places - has had two further motor vehicle accidents in the past month, the most recent of them after training on Monday.
Dowler, who turned 18 only last month and has been on a modified fitness program on account of his pelvic injuries, fell from a friend's trailbike over the Christmas break, receiving cuts and abrasions and a hand injury that required stitching.
The fall was apparently no more serious than that and, according to Hawthorn, Dowler returned to training and began running for the first time since the car accident in October, which had confined him to a wheelchair for five weeks and placed his draft prospects at risk.
On Monday, in the Holden Commodore he acquired only a week earlier, Dowler escaped from a more serious collision with a tree that totalled his first car but fortunately allowed him once again to walk away without serious injury.
It is understood that after Hawthorn's training session at Carey Grammar yesterday morning, Dowler drove out of the school's Bulleen grounds, attempted to turn right on to Bulleen Road, over-accelerated as he did so, lost control of the car, veered across the road and collided head-on with the tree.
Club spokeswoman Kristi High confirmed that a passing police vehicle attended the scene and that an ambulance was called but was not required.
"Beau returned to the club and was later driven home by a member of staff," High said.
"The car was seriously damaged but luckily Beau wasn't and it's expected that he will train as usual this week. We're quite certain that he hasn't caused himself any further problems with his pelvis."
Dowler told The Age last November: "I've got my L plates but I don't know about driving just yet. It's a bit scary, to be honest."
As copied from today's Age....
It is often said that virile young men are accidents waiting to happen. Beau Dowler is different. He is an accident that has happened. Three times.
The gifted Hawthorn tall forward - selected in the first round of the national draft late last year despite a serious car accident only weeks earlier in which his pelvis was fractured in four places - has had two further motor vehicle accidents in the past month, the most recent of them after training on Monday.
Dowler, who turned 18 only last month and has been on a modified fitness program on account of his pelvic injuries, fell from a friend's trailbike over the Christmas break, receiving cuts and abrasions and a hand injury that required stitching.
The fall was apparently no more serious than that and, according to Hawthorn, Dowler returned to training and began running for the first time since the car accident in October, which had confined him to a wheelchair for five weeks and placed his draft prospects at risk.
On Monday, in the Holden Commodore he acquired only a week earlier, Dowler escaped from a more serious collision with a tree that totalled his first car but fortunately allowed him once again to walk away without serious injury.
It is understood that after Hawthorn's training session at Carey Grammar yesterday morning, Dowler drove out of the school's Bulleen grounds, attempted to turn right on to Bulleen Road, over-accelerated as he did so, lost control of the car, veered across the road and collided head-on with the tree.
Club spokeswoman Kristi High confirmed that a passing police vehicle attended the scene and that an ambulance was called but was not required.
"Beau returned to the club and was later driven home by a member of staff," High said.
"The car was seriously damaged but luckily Beau wasn't and it's expected that he will train as usual this week. We're quite certain that he hasn't caused himself any further problems with his pelvis."
Dowler told The Age last November: "I've got my L plates but I don't know about driving just yet. It's a bit scary, to be honest."
