Floro Fighting Systems

Peter Cannon is my representative in Kuwait……….this is the story of his latest brush with destiny.

We were heading down the highway just near Jebil Ali when a truck swerved and we swerved to miss it but unfortunately the back end on one of the American trucks lost control.

I tried to correct the swerve of the vehicle three times before we eventually hit the plastic barriers that should be full of water but were instead full of sand.

There was a dip into the roadwork’s where I the vehicle fell in and then we rolled all the way up through the roadwork to the new concrete barriers.

Some guys who were working on the road then started trying to pull out the window so I stopped them and got myself loose from the wreckage. James and I smashed out the back windscreen just in case the car exploded but fortunately there was no leak!

So we grabbed the camping chairs and had a seat to wait for the Police and Ambulance…

At the hospital they did a number of x-rays and scans and found that my neck was broke in 3 places and that there was 4 fractures on the spine.. It was like C4, C6, C7 and T something to 8.

They had 2 options – either 10 weeks in traction or emergency surgery. I opted for the Op and the put in the 2 plates with 6 screws and took some bone from the hip and grafted the spine….

All good fun and now I almost back in action, just stiff and a bit sore… Peter.

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