‘I’ve never felt pain like it’: actress tells of ordeal in stock car crash
ACTRESS ROXANNE Pallett has told of the pain she is feeling days after being airlifted to hospital following a stock car racing crash, and revealed she has received unkind messages on social media about the accident.
The former Emmerdale star, who has sprained wrists and internal bruising after the car she was driving crashed into a concrete wall in North Yorkshire last Wednesday, said: “It’s something you never expect to happen to you and it’s just a bit of a blur still, to be honest.
“I’m so dosed up on painkillers, I’m almost grateful to be this numb.”
Pallett was taken by helicopter to Hull Royal Infirmary after firefighters spent two hours cutting her from the wreckage of the vehicle.
She said she was in the car for a day of filming a promotional video for her breakfast show on Minster FM, and quickly realised it was “more powerful than me”.
The 36-year-old said: “When I was revving to drive I didn’t expect it to be so quick, and I just lost control – I couldn’t brake and I couldn’t turn it around the corner and I could just see that I was about to hit and then was when I lost, I just blacked out.”
She said the moment she woke up after losing consciousness for about 30 seconds, she “couldn’t feel my legs and my head and my neck” and that she had “never felt pain like it”.
Pallett praised the team at the Hunmanby Raceway for making sure she was wearing protective gear.
She also said she has had some unkind messages that were “lacking in compassion” from people within the stock car racing community.
She said: “They were almost disappointed that I’d been airlifted and only come out with internal bruising and sprained wrists, and I’ve got to point out that sometimes injuries can be invisible.”
She said “it was like time stood still” after the crash and while still stuck in the wreckage.
“I remember waking up and hearing my own breath,” she said.