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Girl almost died in crash as navel piercing stud shot through her like a bullet
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| HardTranceProd |
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A student has given warning of the potential dangers of body piercings, after she was almost killed when her belly-button stud tore through her stomach “like a bullet” during a car accident.
Jessica Collins, 19, from Radyr, Cardiff, is recovering from surgery at a hospital in Munich, where the crash happened. The seatbelt she was wearing forced the metal stud through her body almost to her spine, causing serious internal injuries.
Her mother, Amanda Beadle, who has flown out to Germany to be by her bedside, compared her daughter’s injuries to a bullet wound and said that she was lucky to be alive. Jessica has urged friends to remove their own piercings.
The accident, which happened last week while she was on a working holiday taking photographs of cathedrals, also left the student with facial injuries and blood on her brain. But the most serious injuries occurred as a result of her piercing.
Mrs Beadle, 37, of Cardiff, said: “The seatbelt pushed her stud all the way through her stomach to her spine. She told me, ‘All my friends have got belly button piercings. Please let everyone know what has happened’. The piercing was like a bullet going through her stomach. If it had not been for the piercing, she would not have been in a life-threatening situation.”
She said that her daughter had undergone a three-hour operation and was lucky that a paramedic had been in the car behind her when the crash happened. The emergency worker called an air ambulance and surgeons were able to treat her within the first vital hour after the accident.
Infections and other complications because of piercings are thought to cost the NHS up to £1.5 million a year.
Chris Beadle, Jessica’s step-father, said: “She’s only a slight girl to start with, but the lap belt has pulled so tightly that the front part of her waist was pushed up against her spine. The doctor described it like a bullet hole.
“He was fascinated from a medical point of view. He’d never seen anything like it before.”
Mr Beadle said that Jessica was starting to recover. “She started eating some food. It’s a bit like baby food. It will be some time before she can eat properly.
“She’s on her feet now, obviously in a lot of pain but high spirited. Her dad came out mid-week to see her and her friends are coming at the weekend. She’s very emotional about everything that’s happened but on the mend.”
Jessica, who is studying art at Pontypridd College, got the silver-coloured stud when she was 15.
Mr Beadle said that his step-daughter was determined to make others with piercings aware of the possible risks.
He said many of Jessica’s friends had removed their own studs since the crash. “It was a freak accident. I can’t say I’ve ever heard of anything like this before, but for a decorative bit of jewellery, it’s not worth the risk.”
The driver of the car, Devdutt Shaftri, of Butetown, Cardiff, suffered a broken leg in the crash and has since been released from hospital. The family say that the police told them nobody was at fault for the accident.
Jessica was in intensive care for five days, and is not expected to return to Britain until the week after next.
Painful piercings
— Infection is the main risk associated with body piercing. If hygiene standards are not adequate, those with piercings can catch hepatitis and HIV
— Bacterial infections can result in cysts, which can develop into septicaemia (blood poisoning) or toxic shock syndrome if left untreated.
— Body piercing is considered an invasive procedure, like a surgical operation, and carries with it the same risks and healing periods The healing times of the most common body piercings are: ear, three to four months; navel, one to twelve months; tongue, one to two months; nose, two to three months
— Body piercing also presents a risk of swelling and scarring
Source: NHS Direct
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| _Nut_ |
I think the parents and friends are overreacting.
Don't let one bad apple spoil the bunch. No matter what you do... anything in life will have risks.
Hell, you can have prolonged injury to your wrists from typing on a keyboard all of the time. Will you stop typing now?
That is just one of those random, probably one in one-hundred million chances of ever happening again occurrences.
The thing that baffles me:
'The seatbelt pushed her stud all the way through her stomach to her spine'
Was it super loose - allowing it to slap her stomach when she was jutted forward in the accident? This article really fails to address how it actually happened. How many tens of thousands of people with studs have been in accidents and never been injured like this? Most if not all? |
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| Marc Summers |
| There are cases where the seatbelts have even prevented people from escaping burning cars and cars submerged under water. Irony, to say the least. |
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| iammesol |
| Holy bullet button ring! :eyes: |
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| Gauss |
| Pictures of that would be interesting to see... :nervous: |
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| narcism |
| thats gotta hurt like a bitch |
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| bas |
Moral of the story:
Don't wear a seatbelt. |
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| echosystm |
| quote: | Originally posted by bas
Moral of the story:
Don't wear a seatbelt. |
what... so your head goes through the front windscreen instead? :rolleyes: |
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| 3F05Q |
I think the Mythbusters should test this one out.
Why was her shoulder harness so low, or the lapbelt so high? From what it said about her waist pushing against her spine, perhaps she submarined? Sounds like the seatbelt lower mounts aren't low enough. That makes me wonder what kind of car. |
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| cariad |
| thank you for your words of wisdom NUT, I am jessicas aunty, and I will be sure to tell her mum (my sister) that when her daughter had a near death experience and she was holding her hand whilst on life support, crying as she washed matted blood out of her daughters hair, that she was in fact completly overreacting! |
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