Lying on the pavement in the moments after he was thrown from his motorcycle, Brian Haynes’ first instinct was to find his wife, Debbie.

Just down the road, she was also lying on the pavement, Good Samaritans and first responders rushing to tend to her injuries.

“It was a hard thing to see because I couldn’t help her,” Brian, 60, told the Star on Wednesday. “But I saw that others were.”

Brian and Debbie Haynes, who hail from the small town of MacTier, in Muskoka, had taken their motorcycle out for a ride in the Kawartha Lakes on a late July afternoon when they collided with an oncoming vehicle in a town 50 kilometres away in Ramara Township, near Orillia. The initial impact caused Brian to lose consciousness.

Once he’d awoken, and set eyes on Debbie, Brian began to take stock of his ow

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