ANALYSIS: The bloody collision between my head and the door frame happened during a frantic Nerf gun battle with my 11-year-old daughter. The immediate aftermath was all about staunching the blood, getting me to A&E and getting the wound stitched up. I didn’t go unconscious, underwent a short concussion test in the A&E, and was sent […]
It has almost been a decade since a quad-bike accident changed Anita Kendrick’s life forever. Farm safety is now paramount – as is telling her story, reports Lawrence Gullery. Read the full article. Stuff: Lawrence Gullery, September, 25 2020
Dale Henley cannot remember flying over his handlebars and landing on his head. The days before the mountain biking accident are blacked out. Henley woke in hospital after four nights in a coma and learned to walk, talk and eat again. Eight weeks were wiped from his memory. But after so far making a strong […]
Bay of Plenty dairy farmer Paul Walker counts his lucky stars he only lost one finger and not his whole hand in a grisly accident on his Pongakawa farm. Even though the accident happened back in October 2008, Paul remembers it like it was yesterday. “It was a really busy time of year and I […]
A passenger who suffered horrific life-changing injuries in a minor car crash has warned Kiwis to learn from her mistakes after she sat in a dangerous yet common position. Irish woman Grainne Kealy had her feet on the dashboard when the vehicle she was in, which was travelling at less than 50km/h, lost control going […]
New Plymouth’s mayor has hit out at the “glacial pace” of a major safety upgrade to a deadly stretch of state highway, while revealing another $26 million is still needed to fully realise the plans. In November 2018, Transport Minister Phil Twyford announced a $29m investment in urgent improvements, required along a 12-kilometre section of […]
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency has announced the safer speed limits on this road will take effect from 12 October 2020. Director Regional Relationships Steve Mutton says this route is a high-risk road. Eight people died and 30 people were seriously injured in crashes on this stretch of SH1 in the ten years from 2009-2018. […]
An 11-year-old New Plymouth schoolgirl took her campaign for a lower speed limit on her rural road to district councillors, telling them of the near miss that she and her mother had with a delivery truck. “If my mum hadn’t heard it we could have been seriously injured,” Millie Stonier told the New Plymouth District […]
Police are being urged to restore dwindling breath-test checkpoints as the number of alcohol-related road deaths continues to climb. Latest police figures show fewer than 1.3 million roadside breath tests were carried out in 2018-19, down from more than 3 million in 2013-14. With road deaths involving a drunk driver increasing by 77 per cent […]
When snowboarder Carlton Johnstone dismounted from a chairlift, he hit an icy patch and fell hard. Within hours he had surgery to fix a fracture to his hip. Central Otago snowboarder Carlton Johnstone is lying on his couch reflecting on a ‘freak accident’ that saw him require urgent surgery and two large metal rods inserted […]
‘Mild’ injuries can change careers: How I’m adapting to life after a blow to the head
ANALYSIS: The bloody collision between my head and the door frame happened during a frantic Nerf gun...
New trauma patient system expected to save lives
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