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Australian trapped in her car for three days
Dec 29, 2011, 8:52 GMT
Sydney - An Australian trapped in her overturned car for three days after crashing in a remote spot on Christmas Day was all for cutting off her partially severed leg but could not reach an implement sharp enough for the job, paramedics said Thursday.
Debbie McKnight, 45, ended up having her leg amputated after a teenage boy walking in the forest stumbled across the accident scene near Batlow, 438 kilometres inland from Sydney.
Ambulance supervisor Eamonn Purcell said the weight of the car on her leg had acted as a tourniquet, stopping further loss of blood.
'The patient had a severe lower leg injury and was trapped by the car body with the full weight of the car on her leg,' he said in a statement from the New South Wales Ambulance Service.
McKnight is in Canberra Hospital in stable condition.
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