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Former ABC broadcaster Margaret Throsby remains in hospital after an e-bike collision with two teenagers on a coastal walking track in Bulli, breaking her hip and thumb and suffering head injuries. Her daughter Holly says she is in a lot of pain and calls for tougher rules on powerful e-bikes.
Former ABC broadcaster Margaret Throsby is facing a long road to recovery after breaking several bones and suffering extensive head injuries in an e-bike collision.
Margaret Throsby E-bike Collision Injuries
The 84-year-old remained in hospital on Thursday, almost one week after she was struck while on her regular morning walk in Bulli, in the Illawarra region. Throsby was hit by a rider and passenger on a fat bike along a popular coastal walking track. She was thrown to the path, breaking her hip and thumb and bleeding extensively from her head. Doctors suspect she has broken another bone in her hand, which will be confirmed by x-rays this week.
Throsby required pins and plates surgery to repair her hip. She has also nursed two haematomas in her head and abrasions to her body. She is expected to remain in hospital for at least another week. Her daughter Holly said her mother was faring well in difficult circumstances.
Holly is a musician and author living on the South Coast. Her spirits are up and down and she is in quite a lot of pain, Holly said. She is just coming to terms with how the recovery process will take. Two adults and a teenage girl were walking the track when the collision occurred and administered first aid to Throsby.
The bike riders, who Holly said were remorseful and took responsibility for the accident, called police. One of the boys removed his shirt and used it as a makeshift pillow for Throsby while she lay on the ground. Neither rider is expected to be charged by police over the crash. The woman at the scene used her body to shade Throsby from the sun.
Emergency Response and Police Operation
The man accompanying her on the walk waved away flies from the blood on the broadcast legend's head. Paramedics arrived 15 minutes after the collision. They provided pain relief to Throsby before she was transported to hospital. Holly was in the area when she was phoned by a passer-by.
She rushed to the track, where she encountered a quite shocking scene. She has since been in contact with the rider's father, who has expressed concern for her mother's welfare. Police ran a high-visibility e-bike crackdown in the Wollongong and Lake Illawarra regions the day after Throsby was injured. Four infringement notices were issued and 37 e-bike riders were stopped.
E-bike Concerns and Throsby's Career
The operation was unrelated to the accident involving Throsby. Holly called for tougher regulations and education about the danger of the bikes. The issue is these bikes are really powerful and really heavy and operated by kids, she said. They are just too powerful to be operated by kids.
I worry about the kids themselves, she said. Throsby spent 55 years at the ABC. She joined the public broadcaster as an announcer in 1967 and worked across a range of music and current affairs programs until retiring in 2022. She was the first woman to read national radio news in 1975.
Three years later, she became the first woman to present national television news.
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