TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A Canadian English teacher living in Chiayi City, in southern Taiwan, died yesterday morning in the hospital after colliding head-on with a local teenage couple in a motorcycle accident early last week.
Matt Stever, 27, late of Quinte, Ontario, Canada, had lived and taught in Chiayi City for over four years.
Stever and the Taiwanese teens suffered serious injuries Jan. 14, when their motorcycles collided near St. Martins Hospital. Stever suffered head and neck injuries and went into cardiac arrest, but was revived upon arrival at the hospital. The teenage couple, who were not wearing helmets, suffered multiple injuries. The young woman passed away Saturday, while the male driver remains in critical condition.
Following emergency,life-saving treatment at St.Martins Hospital, Stever was transferred to Tainan County's Chi-mai Hospital and placed under the care of renowned surgeon Dr. Tsai Yin-tzu Stever remained in a coma but his condition stabilized long enough for his parents to arrive in Taiwan on an emergency flight from Canada.
Speaking from the hospital,Roger Stever,Matt's father, expressed heartfelt gratitude to the "compassionate and very caring" doctors and nurses, whom he described as "God's Angels sent to Matt and to us," and to Matt's wide circle of friends for their unstinting support.
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