Mum: ‘Every inch of my body is killing me’
A mother-of two pushed her youngest son out of the path of a runaway trailer, taking the brunt of the impact herself.
But Auckland woman Dina El-noor cannot remember any of it: ‘‘I’ve totally lost my memory from the moment the trailer appeared to the next day.’’
On February 2, El-noor and her sons Fadi, 7, and Rami, 12, were riding on their e-scooters to Waiake Beach for a picnic when a jet ski trailer came loose from a vehicle on Beach Rd, hitting a parked car and them. ‘‘I cannot remember if I pushed or picked up my 7-year-old from my scooter and pushed him away from the danger,’’ El-noor said.
She vaguely remembered the presence of the jet ski trailer before she was hit, but until Thursday she thought it had all been a dream.
Witness Tony Loughran said at the time one of El-noor’s legs was ‘‘S-shaped and her foot was facing the other way’’.
El-noor said her leg was ‘‘really bad’’, with her ‘‘midthigh bone broken’’, her femur and tibia broken, and her knee in fragments.
She has had two surgeries on her leg and will need more. Her other injuries include broken ribs, sternum and collarbone. She also had a bleed on her brain and ‘‘deep cuts’’ around her throat from her helmet.
‘‘Every inch of my body is killing me, even the parts that aren’t broken. It’s so hard to cope,’’ she said.
El-noor’s sons were in ‘‘deep shock’’, she said.
‘‘When he [Rami] looked at me he thought I was dead.’’
El-noor’s husband, Andy Anber, said their boys had largely escaped with scrapes and bruises.
Police said the serious crash unit’s examination was ongoing.