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Crash leaves former teacher quadriplegic, family fights healthcare barriers
A routine morning bike ride turned into a nightmare for the McDonough family outside their Riverside home.
On February 5, 2026, Warren McDonough, 70, a beloved former physical education teacher at Prospect, Campbell Town, Kings Meadows, Lilydale and Exeter high schools, and an avid cyclist, fell from his bicycle after striking a pothole. The crash resulted in Mr McDonough breaking his neck, triggering a cardiac arrest and leaving him quadriplegic.
Warren's wife, Debbie McDonough, recalled that she had started riding downhill when she heard an almighty crunch behind her.
"It was horrible," she said. "I heard the crash; the shock was terrible. Warren was lying on the road surface, gasping for breath. He looked like he was dead. He had no pulse. He was blue."
Warren McDonough paralysed by pothole cycling crash fights to get home
A retired Tasmanian teacher who spent 42 years educating children across northern Tasmania is fighting to return home after a cycling accident left him paralysed and dependent on a ventilator to breathe.
Warren McDonough, 70, broke his neck on February 5 when his front wheel struck a pothole while he was cycling downhill near his Launceston home.
He suffered a C1 spinal injury, leaving him without movement in his limbs and unable to breathe without assistance.
His wife, Deborah McDonough, was cycling with him when the accident happened.
“Then I looked at him and he didn’t have a front wheel and he was coming in to crash into me,” she told Pulse.
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Tasmanian grandfather left a quadriplegic after horrific cycling crash
A much‑loved Tasmanian teacher and grandfather is fighting to return to his house after a catastrophic cycling accident left him dependent on a ventilator and a quadriplegic.
Warren McDonough, 70, was riding down his local street in Launceston on February 5 when his front wheel struck a pothole and sent him crashing onto the road.
He suffered a broken neck and a spinal cord injury leaving him a quadriplegic and requiring 24/7 care.
McDonough has spent the past six months in hospitals across Hobart and Melbourne, entirely reliant on a ventilator to breathe.
His wife, Debbie, said the injury had “changed everything” for their family and that Warren is unable to come home until it is accessible with an “astronomical level” of support.
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