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PostPosted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 7:19 pm 
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wow that is amazing im so sorry to hear buddy, im so glad you are ok... wow i am absolutly gobsmacked... You guys are so lucky.. you dont realise how your whole life can turn upside down within a split second i was in a near fatal car accidnet last march only just survived, I died too and they bought me back.. I broke both feet every bone, my shin, my knee cap 6 bits, my pelvis, 3 ribs, my collar bone, my jaw in 2 places and dislocated, lost 3 teeth wired teeth together for 4 weeks, 5 weeks in hospital, 6 months in wheel chair and heres the car....

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but im allgod now so dont feel sorry for me lol

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That's a fairly serious effort there , glad you're still with us to share the pic's .

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Falc....there are a few of us on Ausmini that have been through similar big hits as you have.....lots of Horse-pistol time :!:

Good luck in the future...get that Clubby in to real good shape :wink: :D

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Whoever crashed certainly did good of it that's for sure :shock:

Glad you're ok, as Mick said you're not alone in it, those hospital pics bring back memories..

While we're sharing, I was in a motorbike accident 3 days before christmas, slid about 30m and slammed into a concrete barrier..ended up with severe internal bleeding and lost my spleen, didn't break any bones luckily:

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I'm still at home recovering, go back to work this week :shock:

Our own doc was a passenger in this too:
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We've really turned this thread off topic now! :lol:

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Mini Mad wrote:
Whoever crashed certainly did good of it that's for sure :shock:

Glad you're ok, as Mick said you're not alone in it, those hospital pics bring back memories..

While we're sharing, I was in a motorbike accident 3 days before christmas, slid about 30m and slammed into a concrete barrier..ended up with severe internal bleeding and lost my spleen, didn't break any bones luckily:

We've really turned this thread off topic now! :lol:


Nice zipper Josh....get well soon....from one who has been there and done that :oops: :roll:

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Princess, how fast did that crash happen at, if you dont mind me asking?
Last year we saw a couple of minis come off the road, from 30, 40, 50 kph and it's
surprising how well they can hold up (I'd rather be in my mini than in the excel).
It was good to hear people weren't seriously injured.


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i was doin 90km/h and they were doin 90 km/h a 4WD my steering locked up, faulty steering column holeden barina.. crap mini mad, im so sorry to hear that, your so lucky to not have broken any bones, i didnt have any internal thank goodness just broke most the bones in my body... hope you get well soon.


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i was doin 90km/h and they were doin 90 km/h a 4WD my steering locked up, faulty steering column holeden barina.. crap mini mad, im so sorry to hear that, your so lucky to not have broken any bones, i didnt have any internal thank goodness just broke most the bones in my body... hope you get well soon.


crap happens......Get well soon :D

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Thanks, i'm doing ok now, the worst is over :) i guess a glass of milk each morning paid off :lol:

Shouldn't you be able to sue someone for that faulty steering column?, what was the go with that? Guess that's why you like Fords! haha, I don't blame you :lol:

You all healed up now you said? How long did it take?

By the time i'm 100% it will have been 2 and a half months for me..Bones would take alot longer, many months i would say..

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i was doin 90km/h and they were doin 90 km/h a 4WD my steering locked up, faulty steering column holeden barina.. crap mini mad, im so sorry to hear that, your so lucky to not have broken any bones, i didnt have any internal thank goodness just broke most the bones in my body... hope you get well soon.


crap happens......Get well soon :D


C'mon Mick, why don't you tell us your story :P

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Mini Deluxe...into Bikes (off Road).....loving it 8)

Mini was conveyance for foul weather and conveying members of the opposite sex....dicky steering...new rack on order...

failure :!: .....massive bloody impact :oops: ....rest is history :roll:

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that seems like a lot of money to pay for a mini in that condition, the engine better be damn near perfect!


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Nah, couldnt afford the lawyers bills to sue them.. so that sucks, but it doesnt matter we just wanted to get on with life and heal..

The bone in my leg still isnt heal it smashed into hundreds of tiny peices, my shin bone, and i have alot of metal plates that are stable enough to walk on, i came out of a wheel chair in october and it happened in march 7th, i get the plate out in march 06 ive had 7 operations and have 3 to go... im getting used to em now... love the aneasthetic lol...

shock is the most amazing thing in the world, i was trapped in the car for an hour and didnt feel a thing the whole time, was just cold. and I could feel all of my teeth out of their holes dangling out of my mouth and my face and chest was sticky with blood, but that was it, what about you mimi mad??

I was sitting there awake the whole time, didnt see the impact saw every second up to it and from every second after it, waiting and waiting for an ambulance, then the helicopter came and i remember the cool flight.. getting cut out of the car before it blew up, getting a blood transfusion.. and i remember them ripping all my clothes off, grrr..


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falcon_princess wrote:
shock is the most amazing thing in the world, i was trapped in the car for an hour and didnt feel a thing the whole time, was just cold. and I could feel all of my teeth out of their holes dangling out of my mouth and my face and chest was sticky with blood, but that was it, what about you mimi mad??

I was sitting there awake the whole time, didnt see the impact saw every second up to it and from every second after it, waiting and waiting for an ambulance, then the helicopter came and i remember the cool flight.. getting cut out of the car before it blew up, getting a blood transfusion.. and i remember them ripping all my clothes off, grrr..


Gotta love the shock, i had adrenalin as well from sliding along the road at 60km/h..certainly isn't something you do everyday! It's amazing how the brain shuts down all pain response.

I came off, went into a concrete wall at a good 30km/h and got deflected across a bridge. I was concious the whole time, and can still remember it all happening as if it was slow motion.

Once I stopped i knew i was in the middle of the road with oncoming cars in peak hour traffic. So I got up straight away and had a thought to myself how lucky i was. Brain started going through the motions..legs ok, brain good, walking(ish)..well that's good, no broken bones, that internal pain ain't so good..I managed to stumble off the road where some guys out of their stopped cars got me and helped me to the kerb..

I didn't even know i had my knee cap showing through my leg until a day after when the surgeon said he has to stitch it back up. I wasn't able to move anything from my arms down for a few days. The internal pain certainly hurt a few moments after that's for sure.

I was put on morphine and that's great stuff, had good dreams with it and most people have nightmares apparently..I had the button to self dose..haha they couldn't get the trigger out of my hand :lol:

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