Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is in serious but stable condition and in surgery this afternoon following a serious head injury this morning after his motorcycle collided with a car on Second Avenue near the 10th Street Bridge, police said.
Roethlisberger lost most of his teeth, fractured his left sinus cavity bone, suffered a nine-inch laceration to the back of his head and a broken jaw, and severely injured both of his knees when he hit the ground, police said.
A plastic surgeon has been summoned. ‘He is right now in the (operating room) undergoing some surgery from injuries he received in this accident today,’ said Dr. Larry Jones, chief of trauma and burns at Mercy Hospital, Uptown. … He was talking to me before he left for the OR. He’s coherent. He’s making sense. He knows what happened.’