'I’ve replayed it so many times, it was such a freak accident,' Whitehill told NBC News correspondent Stephanie Gosk on TODAY.
The bison, which can run three times as fast as a human, charged at Harris.."I think she did one or two backflips in the air, and I was screaming and yelling trying to distract him. She landed pretty hard on her back.”
The National Park Service said in a news release that she was transported by helicopter to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. It's the first reported instance of a bison goring at the park this year and the first since June 2022, park officials said. Harris wrote on Facebook that she suffered seven spinal fractures, bilateral collapsed lungs and"bruising all over."She entered the hospital as Whitehill's girlfriend and will exit it as his fiancée after he went through with his proposal in a much different setting than hoped.
"Chris had planned a beautiful marriage proposal this week on a natural bridge but all three of us have been in the hospital since yesterday morning and I won’t be able to leave any time soon," Harris wrote on Facebook."So my love got down on one knee beside my hospital bed last night and formally asked me to be his wife.Harris' ordeal came after another woman was gored by a bison at Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota last weekend.
While bison attacks are rare, the National Park Service is reminding tourists to keep their distance, especially during the summer mating season that runs through the middle of August.Scott Stump is a staff reporter and the writer of the daily newsletter This is TODAY. He has been a regular contributor for TODAY.com since 2011, producing news stories and features across the trending, pop culture, sports, parents, pets, health, style, food and TMRW verticals.
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