The 38-year-old had his cellphone in his top pocket but could not move his arms to get to it, French said. French and his two friends Charlie Robinson and Jay Dreaver, all aged 18, were in a Hilux driving along a dirt road near Southbridge, 45 kilometres south-west of Christchurch, at about 7pm on Thursday when they spotted Maddison’s bike. The teenagers jumped out of their vehicle to check on him. Maddison, wearing gumboots, jeans a T-shirt, and a polar fleece, was “stone-cold”. “I was like, ‘Oh mate, are you OK? What’s happened”. he said to me in a quiet kind of tone, ‘I’ve fallen off my motorbike a couple of days ago, and I’ve been here because I can’t move, I can’t feel my whole body.”