Former senator Mike Enzi dies after being injured in bike accident

Former senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), the onetime chairman of two Senate panels crucial to domestic policy, died Monday after suffering serious injuries in a bicycle accident. He was 77.

Enzi was riding his bicycle near his home in Gillette, Wyo., when he was injured Friday and flown to UCHealth Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland, Colo.

Enzi “passed away peacefully today surrounded by his family,” a statement posted to his Twitter account late Monday said. His family said it plans to share details about a “celebration of a life well-lived” at a later time.

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Permalink Reply by Bill P on July 28, 2021 at 7:48am

Some details from https://www.gillettenewsrecord.com/news/local/article_c899f30b-5a99...

Do any CLinkers have experience using the Apple Watch fall detector feature?

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Enzi, 77, was riding his bike shortly before 8:30 p.m. near his home in Gillette when the accident happened, said Gillette attorney and family friend John Daly.

Someone found Enzi and called 911, Daly said. He was taken to the hospital and stabilized before being flown to Loveland, Colorado, via air ambulance, according to a Facebook post by his three children.

At 8:18 p.m. Friday, the Gillette Police Department received an Apple Watch distress call that someone had taken a hard fall on Morningside Drive and was not responding. Before officers arrived, someone called in to report a man laying in the roadway beside a bike, said Police Lt. Brent Wasson.

The Gillette Police Department does not release names involved in medical incidents, but Wasson said that officers found a 77-year-old man unresponsive at the scene and he was taken to the hospital.