Remember that horrendous car crash that Nick Hogan was involved in about a month ago in Florida? Well, it seems that things just took a turn for the worse for Nick and especially for John Graziano, Nick's friend who was also in the car with him when he lost control of his yellow Toyota Supra, which flipped over and hit a palm tree full on. Nick, as you very well remember, only had a few scratches, but Grazziano's condition was very bad. And now, it was finally confirmed that Graziano will pretty much be a vegetable for the rest of his life.
Court documents reveal that the young marine will need lifelong care at a nursing home and at best will only be able to open and close his eyes periodically. This is incredibly sad news and it can also mean a disaster for Nick. Many reports claim that Hulk Hogan's son - who has a history of speeding - was doing just that before the crash and this would in fact hold him criminally responsible. Police are still investigating the incident and in the meantime (more than a month after the crash) Graziano is still in critical condition at the Bayfront Medical Center.
A registered nurse by the name of Joanne Jones was reportedly hired by the court to examine John Graziano and determine if he was incapacitated. The nurse stated very clearly that Nick's friend was on total life support. Graziano responds to a pinch and has a gag reflex but does not otherwise respond to touch or sound. His pupils are fixed, meaning they don't respond to light. Coleen Booker, a registered nurse with 14 years of emergency room experience at Shands Hospital at the University of Florida in Gainesville, said in an interview that it is not encouraging that he is on life support and his pupils are fixed.
Nurse Jones' report also mentions the injuries that Graziano sustained as a result of the car crash. She reports that he broke his skull at the base, had part of his skull cut out, experienced brain swelling and had cuts to the scalp. Bone was pushed in and broken in many pieces. He had abnormal collections of blood under the front side of the skull. In an addendum, Jones included information given to her by Graziano's doctor, H. Bushnell Clarke. He told her that at best, Graziano will "open his eyes on and off".
For Nick Hogan, apart from a very guilty conscience, this could mean a lot of time in jail. Graziano was not wearing a seat belt at the time - but even so, if Nick is proven to have been speeding, things could turn very nasty for him.
