Apple watch alerts police to injured Hermosa Beach bicyclist, Greg Fleming, but then it got confusing
by Dan Blackburn While Hermosa Beach resident Greg Fleming lay in a local hospital recently suffering a severe head injury, a controversy swirled around details of his situation. Fleming was riding an electric bicycle along 29th Street near Highland, in Hermosa Beach at about 1:30 a.m. on Jan. 22 when something happened. His Apple Watch sent a message to the Hermosa Beach Police Department that said: “Owner of this watch has taken a hard fall.” The apple watch bands provided the exact location of the incident. According to a Jan. 31 Facebook posting by the police department, “Officers arrived and located an unconscious male lying in the roadway. The male was next to his electric bicycle and bleeding profusely from his head. The male was treated on-scene by officers and transported to a local hospital for additional medical treatment.” Friends rallied in support of Fleming and a GoFundMe campaign was started by Kathy Knoll and others. As of Wednesday, the fund had collected over $22,000. It’s that campaign that has spawned confusion. When Knoll originally gathered information to include on the GoFundMe page, she relied on information from Fleming that he believed he had been…
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