Surfing legend’s 20-year-old son ‘fighting for his life’ after being pinned between cars in devastating accident

The 20-year-old son of Pipeline surfing great Shawn Briley is “fighting for his life” in the ICU after he was “pinned between two vehicles” in Hawaii over the weekend and “sustained serious and extensive injuries.”

Dakota Briley, a surfer based on the North Shore of Oahu, was struck on the side of the island’s Kamehameha Highway and hospitalized with “multiple fractures in his legs, pelvis, ribs, and skull,” according to a GoFundMe page set up on behalf of the athlete, who also endured “unthinkable injuries” to his spine.

“Please continue to pray for our Dakota, he’s in really rough shape and needs a miracle from god,” Dakota’s brother Ryder wrote in an Instagram Story Monday.

“His ribs have been crushed, his spine is severed and broken in multiple places, the back of his skull has been crushed, fractured in over 8 places, from the hip down his legs have been crushed. He needs a miracle, please pray for God to make him whole again.” 

As of Tuesday, more than $51,000 has been raised, surpassing the fundraiser’s original goal of $50,000.

“[Dakota’s] incredible medical team were able to stabilize his legs and are now working tirelessly on multiple surgeries to the rest of his body,” the GoFundMe page noted.

“… Our hope is that God performs a miracle.”

Ryder added in a separate Instagram slide Monday that Dakota is “the strongest person” he knows.

“This boy is a true warrior, the strongest person I know, so stubborn, I know you’re not going anywhere,” he wrote of Dakota. “Keep fighting for us.”

The elder Briley won the Tavarua Tube Classic in 1995.