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street he was passing at that moment.
“It’s funny, because I thought it was safe,” he says with more than a hint of irony in his voice. “The car just came across from the other side of the road and yeah, just went straight through me.
“All I can think of was maybe she thought there was traffic coming or whatever, and she just put her foot down and went straight across and that’s when she hit me. She didn’t see me, so she said.”
The impact of the Toyota resulted in a painful list of injuries for Mr May.
“I was diagnosed with a completely shattered collarbone, my vertebrae in my neck were fractured, and in my back and lower lumbar spine as well. Plus I fractured three ribs,” he says.
Mr May spoke with a rasping voice in the months following his various surgeries, a result of the surgeons cutting through his throat to access some of the fractured vertebrae. His voice has largely returned to normal almost a year