Coventry mum has released a video of the crash she wants people to see after she ‘kidnapped’ through the windscreen

A Coventry mum ‘bulls-eyed’ through a car windscreen as she claims a driver ‘failed to stop at a junction’. Sara Phipps shared footage of the horrifying moment.

As part of the Ironman, she had completed a 30-mile bike ride and was on her way home when she claims an Audi pulled out at the junction, Wales Online reported. This horrifying moment shows the 48-year-old flying into the wing of the silver car, hitting the windscreen and flipping onto the roof before being thrown to the ground.

It left the accounts assistant to be taken to Coventry and Warwickshire University Hospital on “blue lights”, where doctors treated him for a catalog of injuries including a broken right shoulder, broken right femur and bruises and cuts to his hands.

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Now, three years after the incident, the mother-of-two has shared the footage in a bid to encourage other cyclists to wear a helmet.

She said: “I look at the clip back, it doesn’t look like me. We were walking at a slow pace when we reached a crossroads. I had the right of way downhill and he should have yielded.

“It was a clear sunny day and she didn’t (give in), she just kept going. I turned the handlebars of the bike, tried to react, but that meant my right thigh took the brunt of the impact.

“It hit the fender of the car, my leg broke on impact, I saw it and heard it break. I was thrown onto the hood and then my head “bull’s eyed” the windshield and I somehow went onto the roof.

She added: “As he slammed on the brakes, I took off down the road. I have never been in so much pain, I screamed. I remember every second. I spent over £100 on a headset because I wanted the best. I think it saved my life, at least my injuries would have been a lot worse, it did the job, it’s amazing.”

As a result, she was left with a 16 inch long scar. Sara said: “The pain was instant, it hurt a lot. I was put on a spinal board and my legs were in blocks. I couldn’t do anything but blink and talk, it was really scary.

“The drive to the hospital was excruciating, every bump, every speed hump and every pothole hurt. The surgeon had to cut my leg, when they started to cut everything burst, that was the sign that my muscles were all swollen.

“I had an open wound for four days and now I have a 16-inch scar from my knee to my hip.” After eight days in the hospital, Sara was sent home on painkillers, where she slowly began to recover.

Sara said: “I easily went from running 40 miles to needing a commode downstairs because I couldn’t go upstairs to use the toilet. I felt like I lost my whole life and I had terrible PTSD, which I still have now, which is horrible.”

“I have PTSD, it’s driving me crazy. Physically I’ve struggled to gain weight because I can’t do any exercise and I suffer from terrible fatigue.”

She is still reeling from her ordeal: “It’s still a constant struggle, my partner still does most of the housework and my daughter takes me everywhere,” she said. But he said it could have been a lot worse.

“Ending up with scars and mental damage is way more uncool than having messy hair,” she said. “You can get injured and your head will be the thing that messes up. Nine times out of ten you go over the handlebars and your head is the first thing to hit anything, so wear a helmet.

“You can be on the road doing all the right things and someone else does something wrong, it happens all the time. You’re the most vulnerable person on the road. It could be the difference between life and death.”

West Midlands Police have been contacted by Wales Online for comment.

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