5yr old dodges death

The 5yr old is a kid that does not shy away from death or a competitive race. During a casual ride on his bike with his Aunt's family, he challenges her to a race. With her being 8mos pregnant he was figuring that he was going to clean up even though he was only 5. On your mark, get set, go, off they went down the sidewalk that heads downhill toward the creek. He is a manic slamming through his 5-speed gears, hunched over the handlebars giving it his all. After realizing the Aunt was left behind did he decide he should evaluate the high rate of speed he had just obtained. After a quick backpedal spin like on his old bike did he realize he had no foot brakes, these were hand brakes. Aunt and Uncle were too struck with fear to yell out hand brake, hand brakes. By now his speed had passed 20mph and climbing. He hung on but veered off the sidewalk. The first gully washer he hit bounced him off his seat landing him straddling the bar. The last thing the Uncle reported seeing was his legs outspread and his head bobbing up and down as he disappeared into the creek ravine full of old cedar trees with small lower dead broken off limbs that looked like spikes. When they caught up to him he was coming out holding the family jewels. The side of his face was scratched where the spiky limbs grazed the side of his neck and his shoulder is now black and bruised. He said he didn't want to race any more that night. Hey, any bike ride race that doesn't end up in the ER is a good bike ride. Two weeks later my sister said the gouges along his neck were from branches that were dried out sticks of death but if they would have been over another .5-1.0 inch, they would have impaled his neck which would have meant a lot of blood loss resulting in Death.