STACY SQUIRES
Michael Hooky Walker was left with 50 fractures after crashing his motorbike. After a month in coma, he is now on the slow road to recovery at his home in Lake Coleridge.
A quick motorbike ride before a family dinner could have been Michael “Hooky” Walker’s last. It was supposed to be a 20-minute journey on his cherished Harley-Davidson. But the 47-year-old’s next memory after the October 24 crash was waking up from a month-long coma with more than 50 fractures scattered throughout his body. Walker was about 6km from his Lake Coleridge Village home in rural mid-Canterbury when he took evasive action to avoid lambs partially blocking the road.