Account set up to help man who lost leg after being hit by trailer

DANIEL CLIFTON • EDITOR

MARBLE FALLS — Within a blink of an eye, John Bolin’s life changed. He had stepped out of his truck Aug. 10 to open a gate off a county road in Round Mountain to some property where he and fellow surveyor Shawn Moore needed to work.

As he was standing at the gate, he and Moore heard a noise from the road.

“By the time they looked up, there was no time,” said Shawn Moore’s wife, Lisa Moore. “A flatbed trailer had come off a truck and just crashed into John.”

Shawn Moore rushed to his friend’s aid, and upon seeing the damage to one of the legs, applied a tourniquet, a move that medical personnel would later say might have saved the man’s life. EMS and rescue crews were able to get to the scene and stabilize Bolin before he was transported by helicopter to University Medical Center Breckenridge in Austin.

“They had to amputate his leg,” Moore said. “The other leg was broken, but the doctors think it’s savable. But still, he and Lorie have a long fight ahead of them.”

Bolin has worked at Marble Falls Surveying and Mapping for 15 years, Lisa Moore said.

“He and my husband have worked together for the past seven years,” she said. “This has just been so devastating.”

Moore set up a GoFundMe.com account to help raise money for the Bolins. Visit www.gofundme.com/JohnBolin to donate.

“His wife is a manager for Taco Casa, and she’s had to take time off to be with him in the hospital,” Moore said. “Seton has a place she can stay near the hospital, kind of like a Ronald McDonald House, but there is still a cost. There’s just a lot of costs with this that aren’t exactly related to the medical expenses. There are a lot of day-to-day bills that they’ll need help with.”

“And they have a daughter and two stepsons,” Moore added. “We’re just trying to help them with any expenses we can. I told Lorie, ‘Go be with John and let me take care of some of this.’”

Moore and others are working on future fundraisers as well, but for now, people can donate though the GoFundMe.com account or at First State Bank Central Texas, 617 U.S. 281 North in Marble Falls. The bank account is under Lisa Moore/FBO John Bolin.

“And they’re going to need a lot of prayers,” Moore added.

daniel@thepicayune.com