Kentucky family asks for help as man fights for his life after crash

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – A Berea man continues to be preventing for his life at UK Hospital greater than every week after he was concerned in a crash.

The household of Ezekiel Byrd is now asking the general public for assist.

Members of the family say Ezekiel offers with extreme ADHD, so he can’t ever sit nonetheless. Nevertheless, they are saying he channels all that exercise and vitality into positively affecting the lives of others.

“He would cease to assist folks on the facet of the street, not even figuring out who they have been or what they have been able to. He would give the shirt off his again,” mentioned Miranda Byrd, Ezekiel’s sister.

Sadly, the kind-hearted 25-year-old is now the one in want of assist. He was in a automotive driving via the Kingston space of Madison County when the motive force misplaced management.

“The man didn’t provoke a flip, and it resulted within the truck hitting a utility pole, flipping 4 occasions and Zeke was ejected from the truck,” mentioned Kylie Luszcz, Ezekiel’s fiancée.

The Madison County Sheriff’s Workplace says they did reply to the scene and are investigating this crash. There’s an open case of first-degree assault in opposition to the motive force, however no fees have but been filed.

Ezekiel misplaced a lung, his mind is swollen, and he’s on dialysis for his kidneys, amongst different accidents.

So, his household is asking for assist not simply due to his medical payments but in addition as a result of he has no life insurance coverage and he might, tragically, go away behind his fiancee Kylie and 4 women aged 5 and youthful.

There’s a GoFundMe for Ezekiel on-line, organized by his mother-in-law.

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