Scunthorpe car meet crash victim tells of ordeal

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Scunthorpe car meet crash victim tells of ordeal
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Georgia Wood suffered a bleed on the brain during a crash at a car meet in Scunthorpe on Saturday.

A young woman has told how she suffered a bleed on the brain after a car ploughed into spectators at a Scunthorpe car meet.

Georgia Wood, 22, was one of 11 people injured - five of them seriously - in the crash at Flixborough Industrial Estate on Saturday night.Ms Wood, from Doncaster, said: "I am just thankful to be alive." Humberside Police said a car collided with two other vehicles before ploughing into onlookers at the 50-car event.

Recalling the aftermath, Ms Wood said: "I just remember waking up and I was laid on the floor and I was face down. "I remember just pulling my hand up and it was just covering in blood. I was thinking to myself, 'that's not my hand is it?' I was just like, 'what has happened?'"Moments earlier she and her friends had been admiring cars that had been modified by their owners."I tried to tell them that it was hurting but I couldn't speak," she said. "Then it hit me - something really bad had happened to me.""I couldn't see them," she said.

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