A trip to Ocean City, Maryland, to celebrate his graduation from Pequea Valley High School turned into a tragic accident for Trevor Vollmer. Vollmer, on the trip with friends, was struck by a bus Saturday morning. He was dribbling a ball when it bounced into the street, and he attempted to retrieve it. Vollmer remains in a trauma hospital, and it’s unclear how long he may be kept. He was a two-sport athlete for the Braves, roaming the secondary and backfield in football while covering the infield on the baseball diamond. “They said that I should probably stop whatever I was doing and get myself ready and get down there because Trevor had been in a bad accident,” Joseph Vollmer, Trevor's father, said in an interview with WGAL on Thursday. “He was facing a bus with his head down, bent over. And that's when it hit him. It just crushed his spine, split his head wide open and gave him a brain injury and bleeding on the brain.” According to Joseph Vollmer, Trevor can’t feel from his waist down. If it weren’t for two people aboard the bus, he might not be alive. "They got him breathing again," Joseph Vollmer said. "He was actually out and not breathing. He was basically dead. And they did CPR on him, got him, got him back to life." A GoFundMe has been launched in support of the family to help cover costs for food, gas, temporary housing, travel and other unexpected expenses. As of Friday afternoon, the effort had raised $46,000 of a $50,000 goal. Trevor Vollmer batted .339 for the Braves this spring with 21 hits, 18 runs scored and 11 walks, earning a Lancaster-Lebanon League Section Four all-star second-team nod in the process. He was named a Quarterback Club L-L Section Five honorable mention at defensive back in the fall.
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