I’m just glad my kids missed crash horror
Mum Leeanne is on the mend after blackout ordeal
A Paisley mum- of- three who crashed through her garden after suffering a seizure at the wheel says she is thankful her kids weren’t in the car at the time.
Leeanne Young, 36, sparked a gas leak evacuation when she blacked out on her way back from a shopping trip and ploughed through her own front hedge.
Shaken Leeanne, a community alarm worker for Renfrewshire Council, says the episode was the first time it had ever happened.
She said: “I had dropped my kids off and gone for a bit of shopping. I can remember everything about the journey home until I turned into my street.
“I don’t remember anything about going into the garden at all. The first thing I remember was coming to in the back of the ambulance.”
Emergency crews raced to Nethercraigs Drive in the Glenburn area of the town on Saturday around 5.15pm.
Several houses were evacuated in the street over fears of an explosion as Leeanne had careered into gas mains during the incident.
A gas engineer was able to contain the leak a short time later.
Leeanne said: “I have never had anything like this before. I had been not well and off work, and my partner said I hadn’t been myself during the day in the lead up to it. The car just went through the hedge and a tree stump came up when they removed my car.”
Leeanne, who has a twin son and daughter, aged 12, and a three-year-old boy, was relieved that none of them were in the car during the accident.
She added: “I had, thankfully, just dropped the kids off at their dad’s so they weren’t in the car. Even now I keep looking out and see people walking past, and thinking what if I had hit someone.”
After coming to rest in the garden, Leeanne say she was disorientated and refused to cooperate with paramedics.
“I just wanted to get the kids’ toys from the back of the car. I didn’t know anything about the gas leak. I just refused to move and told everyone to go away. One of the paramedics was a friend of my sister and she said, ‘Leeanne, it’s me’. I’m sorry if I was rude to anyone, I had no idea what was happening.”
After a night in hospital, medics will see Leeanne soon for an assessment and she has been told she can’t drive for six months.
She added: “I want to thank everyone who helped me, the paramedics and my neighbours and everyone who has sent messages of support.”