‘He’s in excruciating pain’: local boy could lose both arms after horror bike accident

A teenager from Secunda in Mpumalanga faces a long journey to recovery following a catastrophic bicycle crash.

Fourteen-year-old Arlo Smith set off to join his friends for a bike ride one afternoon last month – something he’d done countless times before.

Arlo’s mom, Liezel, says she and her husband, Eddie, usually try to accompany her son and his brother, Lieward (16), when they go for a ride but she felt a bit sick that day and Eddie was at work.