Witness of freak accident at Queensway:
One leg looks like... it's chopped off
->Car swerves & hits Caucasian woman standing outside fastfood restaurant
->Paramedics retrieve victim's severed limb
IT was an accident that severed a woman's leg and left a witness shaking.
A Caucasian woman was standing outside the McDonald's outlet near Far East Flora at Queensway, when a car suddenly swerved and hit her.
Seconds later, she was on the ground with her right leg severed below her knee. Her left leg was also broken.
The woman, who is in her 30s, is now at National University Hospital (NUH).
The accident occurred at 7.30am last Tuesday.
Police said a car and a bus collided along Queensway outside the fastfood outlet at Ridout Tea Garden.
The car then skidded into the carpark at the tea garden and hit a stationary car. It then hit the woman and another parked car before finally stopping.
Mr Andy Gun, 28, a foreman at nursery Far East Flora, was about to start his shift when he heard a loud noise.
His workplace and the McDonald's outlet are at the Ridout Tea Garden.
Mr Gun said: 'It was 7.30am and I had just changed into my work uniform. Suddenly, I heard a loud bang.
'I thought the McDonald's outlet was on fire and rushed out to see what happened.'
There was no fire, but what Mr Gun saw next shocked him.
Lying on the ground in front of him was the woman's severed leg.
Mr Gun said: 'That was the worst thing I have seen in my life. When I saw it, I was so scared that I was shaking. I ran back to my workplace.
'After that, I lost my appetite for lunch and dinner. I kept thinking about the accident and could not sleep.'
LOUD CRASH
An employee at the McDonald's outlet, Mr AL Jeffry, 25, said he was waiting to deliver some takeaway meals that morning when he heard a loud crash coming from the carpark.
'When I went there, a Caucasian woman was lying on the ground,' he said. 'One of her legs looked like it was chopped off and the other leg was badly broken.
'Moments before, one of my colleagues had served her. She bought a takeaway meal and was leaving the place when she was hit by the car.
Video grabs of a camera phone clip taken by The New Paper reader.
'There was a lot of blood and she was in pain, but I did not hear any screaming. A woman was cradling and consoling her.
'I ran into the outlet, got some water and gave it to the woman helping the victim.'
Mr Jeffry saw an empty bus by the main road and three damaged cars in the carpark. He said one of the cars had hit the woman.
A Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) spokesman said they were informed of the accident at about 7.30am. An ambulance arrived within 10 minutes.
The spokesman said: 'The woman was in pain and had lost a lot of blood. She was in a confused state when the paramedics reached her, but she did not become hysterical.
'We retrieved the severed limb, placed it in ice, and rushed it and the woman to hospital.'
RUSHING TO SAVE LIMB
Mr Jeffry said his friend, who was with him, used a camera phone to capture a video clip of the accident scene. The clip shows SCDF paramedics attending to the injured woman.
There is also footage of one of the paramedics picking up what looks like the severed leg and rushing to put it into the waiting ambulance.
The woman is now at NUH's Surgical Intensive Care Unit.
A hospital spokesman said she was alive, but could not say more as her family declined to comment on her condition or give any interviews to the press.
It is not known if her leg has been re-attached.
Police said that investigations into the accident are ongoing and no arrests have been made to date.
Anyone with information on the accident can call the Traffic Police hotline at 1800-547-1818.
source:
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/st...42871,00.html? 
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