A student teacher feared she'd die when a hair clip sliced through her scalp and lodged in her head for two hours after a horror car crash. The 19-year-old is now urging motorists not to wear the hair accessory while driving for fear it could happen to others.
Jeena Panesar has spoken about a 'really traumatic' incident that occurred on January 24th when she was driving home from work in Swadlincote, Derbyshire.
Jeena says she was travelling at 50mph on a 60mph road when her vehicle hit a tree before skidding for 50 metres and flipping over - crushing her head against the roof. At the time of the crash, Jenna had her hair tied up in a claw clip when she lost control of the car.
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The impact of the crash rammed the claw clip into the back of her head until 'most or all' of the hair accessory was embedded skull-deep in her flesh.
Thankfully Jeena was fortunate enough to escape the wreckage and crawled out of the car's shattered window. She then was able to flag down a driver in a passing car, before passing out.
Jeena regained consciousness to find concerned passersby had called her parents and the paramedics. When paramedics arrived, Jeena informed them there was something stabbing her in the back of the head, but they could not do anything until she had been brought to hospital.
Jeena, from Derby, said: "It's sad to say but I kind of thought I was going to die. When the car started crashing the claw clip wedged into the back of my head. Then the car roof clamped down into my head, so it was a joint effort from both.
"It was just really painful. If you've ever worn a claw clip and forgotten to take it out and lay down on your back, it's that pressure and that discomfort.
"I had to lie there with what I'm assuming is most or all of it stuck in the back of my head. I think I might have been really cold and just in too much shock to feel all of the pain.
"When the clip was in the back of my head, they [the paramedics] didn't let me see the damage that had been done because they didn't want to scare me," she said. After being blue-lighted to Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham, the 10cm-long clip was removed.
Shocking selfie-style images show the giant 30cm wound running from the back of her scalp to her left eyebrow, which she's not able to move even six weeks on.
"When I arrived at the hospital, a female nurse was like, 'oh that's probably really painful'. She turned me over and then took it out.
"Because I work in a school, I keep my hair up in a claw clip at the back because I can't be bothered to brush it," Jeena added.
The brave teen is now warning motorists to ditch wearing claw clips while driving and use an elastic bobble instead to avoid the same gruesome experience.
"I didn't know wearing a claw clip while driving was a problem until I had the accident. It has definitely deterred me from wearing claw clips. Now I've seen it's happened to other people too so I'm part of a rare handful of people in this world who have experienced that.
"Don't wear a claw clip whatsoever when driving. If you want to tie your hair up, just use a rubber band."
She stayed in hospital for three days, where surgeons cleaned and stitched up the skull-deep wound.
Six weeks on from the incident, Jeena's still got a lengthy scar and has lost movement in her left eyebrow due to muscle damage in her forehead.
In a video Jeena posted on social media describing the incident, she said: "I now have a foot long cut... I can't style my hair properly anymore because they had to cut random pieces of my hair." She describe the incident as 'really traumatic' but after getting a big procedure and plenty of stitches she said, "everything else was fine and now I'm here to tell the story."
Her viral post has been viewed more than three million times and has racked up almost 1,000 comments from horrified TikTok users.
One said: "I'm ever wearing a claw clip in a car again."
Another said: "I'm slowly taking off my claw clip on the bus."
A third added: "My jaw literally dropped."
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