Kerry’s story My name is Kerry and late one evening last September, my life was saved by the expertise and skill of the KSS team after I was involved in a serious car accident.
KSS is a charity which has always been close to mine and my family’s hearts, but I never dreamed that one day they would save my life.
32 I Autumn 2021
I was in a taxi from Ebbsfleet Train Station, just a mile from my house — a journey that I’d made many times before — when a speeding car collided with us head on round a slight bend in the road. That is the last thing I remember before waking up in King’s College Hospital one week later. My memory from that night is very faint, I had no idea what had happened to me. In a way, I was lucky to have had my accident where I did, as KSS is one of the only air ambulance services in the country to fly 24/7 so they were able to get to me quickly.
Due to the location of my incident, the team landed nearby and were transported to the scene by the police. I was told that when they arrived I was struggling to remain conscious, with a fast heart rate and low blood pressure. I had multiple injuries, including fractures to my femur and pelvis, which the KSS team administered an emergency anaesthesia for so they could splint my leg and pelvis to avoid further injury. I was given a blood transfusion at the scene, as the KSS team were concerned I might have been bleeding internally from the impact of the crash. It was decided I’d be taken to hospital by road with the team from KSS accompanying me so they could continue my blood transfusion.
