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    Pair lucky to be alive after crash

    The West Australian
    Tayissa Barone The West Australian
    April 15, 2014, 2:55 am


    A 19-year-old Pearsall student says she cannot believe she and her aunt are alive after a suspected drunk driver crossed on to the wrong side of the road and ploughed into her car in Edgewater on Saturday night.

    Kelly Haywood, 19, had spent the evening with her aunt Sasha Russell, 29, at the Western Force rugby match in Perth and the pair had left happy after Ms Russell got her Force jersey signed by one of the players.

    As Ms Haywood drove the pair home along Ocean Reef Road in Edgewater about 8.30pm they saw headlights coming towards them.

    A black Holden utility had crossed from the westbound lanes into their lane and was headed straight for Ms Haywood's Holden Cruze.

    "I just remember seeing it and then bam," Ms Haywood said. "(The utility) hit and it knocked the wind out of both me and Sasha.

    "The glass shattered right in front of us and I just saw the car in slow motion collapse into us."

    A Good Samaritan couple carried Ms Haywood out of the car.

    But Ms Russell was trapped in her seat with a broken leg.

    Firefighters had to cut the roof off the car to get her out.

    She was taken to Royal Perth Hospital.

    "I just remember screaming for Sasha and I could just see her head," Ms Haywood said.

    "She was just looking around and I felt so scared, I just felt so bad that I got out and she had to get cut out."

    Ms Haywood was taken to Joondalup Hospital where she was treated for broken bones in her feet, a degloved knee, bruising and internal bleeding.

    "I'm so happy to be alive," she said. "I can't believe that we walked away from that."

    The 30-year-old driver of the utility had serious injuries and was taken to RPH.

    Ms Haywood said the driver would have to live with the consequences of the collision "for the rest of his life".

    "I do feel sorry for him but I am a bit angry my car is gone and I'm sore and broken," she said.
    Police are asking for anyone who saw either vehicle in the minutes before the crash to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

    https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa...e-after-crash/


    Hope the boys that are not going away do something nice for them

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    Fair enough. Jeez not many people make it through the otherside of a head on crash.

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    Hope they both recover quickly.

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    I reckon we went past this site about 5 minutes earlier. Lucky.

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    Horrible, I wish them a speedy recovery.

    Is a "degloved knee" exactly what it sounds like? Urghh!

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    Amazing that she has enough love in her heart to feel sorry for the guy. I don't.

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    Another drunk driver again. All should get a 1 year ban for first offence and jail for second! No chances!

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    May the FORCE be with you!

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    Jail for life for this sort of outcome. With no namby pamby parole option if it's a 2nd offence. We HAVE to get much tougher with these offenders. Personally, I think they should spend the rest of their lives in a Russian hard labour camp in Siberia.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alison View Post
    Amazing that she has enough love in her heart to feel sorry for the guy. I don't.
    My old man was taken out in a head on back in 2010. Idiot in the other car was doing 130km in a 60 zone clipped the curb and got airborne. Had he not been driving a 4wd he would have been killed.

    To this day I do not feel sorry for the idiot that hit him.

    Gina Rhineheart wants cheap labour for her mines lets start sending prisoners north to labour camps. To much slap on the wrist by Judges/Magistrates these days and it's time sentences came into line with community expectations.

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    Could not agree more Jargan. Am very glad your dad survived.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WF2006 View Post
    Is a "degloved knee" exactly what it sounds like? Urghh!
    Sure is. Imagine taking a glove off (degloving) and then imagine it's your own skin rather than a glove. Basically all of that degloved skin is not recoverable and will require grafts.

    I saw the aftermath of such an injury a few years back when a worker put their hand in a machine to free some fabric that had caught on the rollers. That was his hand, so "degloving" was perfectly apt in that case.

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    Been loads of breakthroughs recently, if they were able to keep the flesh clean and cool they can probably save it. Saw a bloke lose his ring finger because he was too stupid to take off his wedding ring and they managed to re-attach it

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    Crikey... I agree with Alison.. send the bastards down with hard labour..

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    I would say a couple of Force players should be sent hopsital with a FULLY autogrpahed jumper and photo op on the way through!

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    Check out the Force Facebook page. Luke Morahan delivered 2 new jumpers to the girls as theirs had to be cut off at the hospital.

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