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A Feilding couple have spoken out about how their nine-year-old son will never walk again after a motocross bike accident
Christian Nesbit landed awkwardly after a 24-metre-long jump at Taupo's Digger McKeown Park and broke his back in three places earlier this year.
He is now at Burwood Spinal Unit in Christchurch where he has been diagnosed as paraplegic with no movement from the chest down.
His father Damian Nesbit told the Manawatu Standard he watched his son land with "a mixture of shock, disbelief and hope".
"I kept saying to him `you're going to be okay', but he said `it's not okay dad, I can't feel anything in my legs'.
"When I asked him later why he went so fast he said `I was buzzing dad'."
A pupil at Colyton School, near Feilding, Christian was a competitive motocross rider and keen soccer player.
His mother Lynne Nesbit revealed how the family was going to visit rising rugby star schoolboy Robert Hickland, 17, also from Feilding, on the day he died in Burwood. He was left paralysed after suffering a serious neck injury in a game last month.
- NZPA
