A teenager who was left with ‘bomb-like injuries’ after she was hit by a tractor has spoken out about her nightmare ordeal for the first time.
She also suffered internal injuries
Lucie Maguire was 19 when she had her right leg amputated, broke her back and suffered more internal injuries after she was hit by the vehicle in North Yorkshire in January 2021.
The apprentice nursery worker was placed into an induced coma at Leeds General Infirmary after being dragged along the road underneath the machine’s ten-tonne trailer.
How it happened
The now 22-year-old had been traveling back from work with her mum Sue, when she got out to help after the pair had stopped on the side of the road, due to their car filling with ‘horrible, black smoke’.
There were many fears but she survived
Medics feared Ms Maguire wouldn’t survive the severe internal bleeding she experienced, as her parents had been allowed visits to say their ‘goodbyes’ to their daughter.
Speaking about the accident for the first time, Ms Maguire said she accepted she would die at the scene.
Details of ‘the black day’
She said: ‘It was a cold, dark winter’s evening. My mum was driving me back home from work when the car started making funny noises and filled with horrible black smoke.
‘We pulled over on a country lane and I got out. I went to the driver’s side to help my mum.
‘I saw bright headlights coming towards me and thought it was someone who could help us.
‘That’s when I was hit by a tractor and dragged under its 10-tonne trailer. I was stuck under there going round continuously with the wheels and it spat me out a bit further down the road.
‘I remember not feeling in pain. My right leg just felt uncomfortable. I wanted someone to straighten it for me as I couldn’t.
‘I told my parents how much I loved them. I accepted I was probably going to die because surely nobody survives what I’d just been through.’
She is surviving
Ms Maguire had her right leg amputated at the hip, broke her back and suffered internal injuries. She is still having operations now and will have her bladder removed.
She spent months in hospital and it took her a while to re-learn how to sit up, stand up and then walk while holding a rail.
