Isaiah’s Fight to Recover After Being Hit by 2 Vehicles

On Anzac Day, April 25th, at around 10.40pm, Rebecca and Isaiah’s world changed forever.

Isaiah had been walking along their dark country road on the edge of Levin when, around 300m from the main road, he was struck in a hit-and-run by a car, badly injuring his arm. Isaiah cannot remember anything after this, so the family have had to piece together what likely happened next. Injured and confused, it appears he continued toward the main road trying to get help.

Tragically, around another 300m further on, a scaffolding truck did not see him in time and struck him a second time, throwing him across the road beside a steep bank. The truck itself rolled down the bank beside him.

Before emergency services arrived, Rebecca and Isaiah’s good mate found him lying critically injured, unrecognisable and bleeding out on the roadside.

Rebecca continues to have vivid flashbacks of finding Isaiah fighting for his life, hearing alarm bells sounding through the ambulance while paramedics tried desperately to keep him awake, and arriving at hospital to be met by at least 20 doctors, surgeons and nurses rushing to save him — unsure if he would survive.

Isaiah was treated as a Status 1 trauma patient with a rescue helicopter on standby. He suffered devastating full-body trauma including a fractured pelvis, fractured rib, concussion/head injuries, and one of the worst shattered wrists surgeons had seen, requiring multiple surgeries and ongoing reconstruction.

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