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Young mum ‘lucky to be alive’ after horrific Mother’s Day car crash

A young mum from North Lincolnshire is “lucky to be alive” after being involved in a serious crash on Mother’s Day, her sister says.

Vicky Grzenkowski, 25, from Kirton Lindsey, suffered eight broken ribs, three breaks to her pelvis, a broken wrist, facial lacerations and a damaged eye, among other injuries, in the crash on Sunday, March 10. Emergency services were called to the crossroads of the B1398 and Gainsthorpe Road at 8.10pm, after a vehicle allegedly failed to stop for police before the collision with Vicky’s car.

The mum-of-two, whose children are just three and five months old, was taken to Hull Royal Infirmary. Two passengers in her car were also injured, while the driver of the other vehicle was being treated for life-threatening injuries.

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Vicky’s sister Elisabeth arrived on the scene of the crash before the emergency service after she received an emergency alert on her iPhone just moments after the incident happened. “The text said ‘SOS received, iPhone has detected a car crash’ and sent me the co-ordinates,” she said. “My partner drove me and we were there in ten minutes.

“When I got there, I ran out of the car, and I couldn’t see Vicky’s car anywhere. I heard my partner shout her name and I put my torch on so I could see and I saw one of the passengers on the floor. I thought Vicky was dead. She was out cold, there was blood everywhere.”



Elisabeth (centre) and Vicky (right)

Elisabeth added: “The car was so crushed it took them nearly an hour-and-a-half to get her out. I was there the whole time. She was just taking her friends home after they’d helped her decorate the kids’ bedroom for Mothers Day.

“She is a by-the-book driver who never speeds, so for this to happen, it just shows that you can be the safest driver in the world and still have something like this happen. She’s very lucky to be alive.”

It is thought that Vicky will spend around six weeks in hospital and then at least six months recuperating at home. She is likely to require intensive physiotherapy to enable her to walk again and has had to put her wedding to partner Dom, which had been planned for May, on hold.

Vicky’s family has set up a GoFundMe page in a bid to help Dom, who is having to take unpaid time off work to care for the couple’s young children. Elisabeth said: “Dom’s had to take time off work and is sorting everything with the kids. We’re all chipping in with babysitting where we can and doing shifts at the hospital.

“His work is allowing him four days paid leave and after that they can only offer him eight weeks unpaid parental leave, so they’re not going to be able to afford anything for the kids. I’ve spent £300 this week just getting to Hull and back and it’s money we haven’t got.”

Earlier this month, Humberside Police said they attempted to stop a vehicle travelling on the A15, north of Junction 4 on the M180, at around 8.10pm on Sunday evening (March 10). The driver “is then believed to have failed to stop for officers” and fled towards Lincoln. The vehicle, a black BMW, then collided with another vehicle, a silver Vauxhall, at the crossroads on the B1398 and Gainsthorpe Road.



Vicky and her partner Dom

A spokesperson for Humberside Police said: “Officers investigating the collision are urging anyone who witnessed the incident or has any dashcam footage of either vehicle before or around the time the collision occurred, to please contact us on our non-emergency number 101, quoting log 407 of 10 March. A mandatory referral has been made to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) in connection with the fail to stop.”

Donate to the GoFundMe appeal for Vicky and her family here.

Original artice: https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/all-about/scunthorpe

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