Parting Shot — 4.28.17

Daniel “Dutch” Inwood poses for a photo in his hospital room on Thursday at Sacred Heart in Spokane, Wash. Inwood lost his leg in a hit-and-run motorcycle accident. (Tyler Tjomsland / The Spokesman-Review)

When local dentist James Shelby turned the corner onto Southeast Boulevard near 11th Avenue on Sunday evening, he stumbled onto a scene of alarm and confusion: Daniel “Dutch” Inwood bleeding out on the side of the road, his motorcycle lying several yards away in the middle of the street.

Inwood was in shock. Hysterical. Blood was pouring out of a large hole beneath his knee cap, and the rest of his leg was hanging on by a skinny thread of flesh.

Days later, with the wound swaddled in bandages and his life no longer in danger, Inwood reflected on the moment: “I’ll never forget holding my foot and my leg in my hand,” he said, turning his palms upward as he mimed holding the severed limb to his chest/ Jonathan Glover , SR. More here.