HEBRON – Former Hebron Academy teacher Jay Woolsey, 67, remained in critical condition Friday, nearly a week after a bicycle-car collision in Tucson, Ariz., put him in a coma, sources said Friday.
The Greenwood resident, who winters in Arizona, was riding his bike last weekend when the accident happened, academy Headmaster John King said Friday night.
Woolsey is being treated in the intensive care unit at University Medical Center in Tucson, where a spokesman said Friday night that his condition remained critical.
King said Woolsey’s family told him the accident happened last weekend in Tucson.
“He was riding a bike along the shoulder” he said he was told, “and apparently he had contact with a car that was traveling in the same direction. I heard about it Monday morning,” King said. He added that he was told Woolsey was in a coma and “hasn’t awakened yet.”
Woolsey, who retired from teaching in 1997 after 30 years, was an avid runner and later, an avid biker.
In the fall of 1999 he took a 2,653-mile bike trek from his home in Greenwood to Ft. Myers, Fla., in 44 days. He was a supporter of the Hebron Academy Outing Club and one of the founders of the Hebron Rescue Unit.
He never married and his only family is a brother, Thomas, and his family of Florida, King said.
Thomas Woolsey is reportedly in Arizona with his brother.
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