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Published June 7, 2024
Updated June 7, 2024 at 10:25 pm ET
A New Jersey family’s vacation turned tragic when a fragment of a badminton racket broke and pierced their 6-year-old daughter’s skull, killing her.
Little Lucy Morgan died Wednesday, four days after the shocking and freak accident on what was supposed to be an idyllic trip to the shore of a lake in Maine.
The tragedy unfolded Saturday as the Morgan family of six enjoyed their last full day at their rented cabin in Limerick, Maine, according to their father Jesse Morgan, pastor of Green Pond Bible Chapel in Rockaway.
Lucy Morgan died when the aluminum handle of a badminton racket pierced her skull. newcreationliving
“We were having a quick lunch by the lake and the kids decided to try badminton in the front yard. “Bethany and I were relaxing in the back when we heard screaming,” Morgan wrote in a blog post titled “Calamity Strikes.”
“Due to a freak accident with a racket breaking when hit downwards, a sharp piece entered Lucy’s skull while she was sitting on the bench and caused a catastrophic injury.”
According to Maine State Police, he had received “an unintentional injury from his 10-year-old brother.”
The racket’s aluminum shaft had become detached from its wooden handle, causing it to hit the girl in the head, investigators ruled.
Lucy was breathing but unresponsive when EMS rushed her to a local hospital, which airlifted the injured girl to Maine Medical Center in Portland, according to Maine State Police.
She was taken straight to the operating room, where surgeons removed part of her skull to relieve the pressure, when Lucy fell onto the table.
The Morgan family from New Jersey was enjoying their last day of vacation in Maine when tragedy struck. Jesse Morgan/Facebook
Fortunately, doctors managed to revive the young woman, but Lucy had lost all brain function and the complete ability to breathe on her own.
Doctors warned the family that the girl had “very little chance” of recovery: the penetration of the racket handle went too deep into her brain and caused immediate arterial bleeding, Morgan explained.
The girl succumbed to her injuries around 4 a.m. Wednesday, a day after her death was predicted.
Lucy lost her brain function on the day of the accident and died four days later. Jesse Morgan/Facebook
“Every time I looked in the rearview mirror, I wished I had seen Lucy munching on some chicken nuggets after we stopped at Wendy’s and only ordered 5,” Morgan wrote of the long 350-mile drive back to her home in New Jersey without Lucy.
According to Morgan, Lucy’s siblings, Silas, 10, Shiloh, 8, and Atticus, 4, are struggling to understand the loss and, tragically, “blame themselves and take it very hard.”
The brother who accidentally caused the fatal injury asked his grieving parents “how we could be happy again,” according to his father’s blog.
“We sat on the front steps crying for a while until I finally worked up the courage to open the door. We collapsed on the kitchen floor again, crying as a family harder than ever,” Morgan wrote.
His funeral will be held on June 15 at his father’s church.
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