A pregnant mum has spoken of the horror she experienced as she watched her partner being "brought back to life" after being crushed between a car and his van. Roxy Ward, 34, was in the passenger seat of the van owned by fiancé Jamie Elliot, 32, when the crash unfolded in Plymouth, Devon. Elliot, a self-employed trader, lay unresponsive in the road as people performed CPR to save his life.
Roxy said Jamie had picked her up from work and was outside his van when he was struck by a car and crushed against his vehicle. She added: "I witnessed it all. It was pretty traumatic but all happened so quickly. I was in the passenger seat and couldn’t stop screaming. It was such a fast horrible episode.
"I got out and was terrified to see if Jamie was ok. He was unconscious on the floor and unresponsive. We were surrounded by a lot of people who tried to help us ring ambulances. Luckily the RNLI have an office close by and they came to give first aid. They did CPR on him as he wasn’t breathing at the scene. Within minutes the ambulance and police turned up and took us to hospital.".
While scans showed Jamie suffered no internal damage or brain injury, he has currently lost the use of one leg after it was broken in two places and has been left wheelchair-bound. He has had an operation to repair muscle damage, he's had two more operations to carry out a skin graft.
Roxy told PlymothLive: "He was released from hospital after nine days but to get full use of his leg could take up to 12 months – and then he might need a further operation. He can not walk at all. The trauma of that leg has left him pretty much wheelchair bound. I’m pregnant with twins and we also have a six and a 16 year old.
