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A serious car crash leads one woman to rediscover her faith in human kindness.
In March last year, the car I was driving was 36 in a serious crash with another car on a country road. I soon 37 myself at the centre of a frenzy of activity, surrounded by paramedics, police, rescuers and members of the local community. An enormous can opener was used to 38 me out of my wrecked car and 39 an ambulance.
Over the next eight hours, l was transported to hospital, dragged up, X-rayed and diagnosed (诊断) with a broken neck. Knowing ‘that I’d 40 death by a fraction of a second sustained me throughout the long wait in the emergency ward and 41 me to deal with the visible distress of my hospital visitors.
Only after I’d convinced the last friend to 42 could I direct my energies inwards Flitting in and out of my line of vision during my hospital 43 was the Red Cross lady, a gentle 44 in white who, from
