A woman has spoken about the terrifying moment she was 'thrown in the air' during an attack by a cow.
Stella Collins still suffers pain 14 months later and has flashbacks of the animal “snorting as it trampled her”.
She had been in the Yorkshire Dales on holiday with her husband Geoff and stopped to take a picture.
Stella told KentLive: “We were about 35 metres away from this herd of cows when, without warning, this large ginger and white cow charged.
“It just came thundering towards me and I heard my husband say ‘Oh no’ and I thought I was going to die because of the anguish in his voice.
She added: “I had no time to do anything other than turn my shoulder as the cow’s head hit me and I was thrown into the air. I was like a rag doll being tossed around and repeatedly trampled.
"We were so happy to be in such a beautiful place. It was like being in a part of heaven, but then, in a blink of an eye, heaven turned into hell.”
Last year five people were killed in cow tramplings in the UK and dozens more seriously injured.
Stella of Tonbridge, Kent was seriously hurt in the terrifying attack and suffered multiple injuries after the apparently innocent animal tossed her in the air.
They included broken ribs, a blood clot and lesions to her lungs, leg and ankle injuries, whiplash and major soft tissue damage.
Fourteen months later, she is still undergoing weekly rehabilitation and physiotherapy and is in constant pain.
Before the attack she regularly played tennis, badminton, table tennis and stoolball.
She has tried to return to sports but, after aggravating her soft tissue injuries, has been advised against activity until after further diagnostic tests.
Stella said: “It is really hard. I still have all this pain doing just everyday activities and am just not the person I was.
"But, I know how lucky I was and I am just so grateful for the actions of the emergency services and what they did for me, particularly the air ambulance.
"I can’t imagine what the journey to hospital would have been like if I had to go by road from such a remote spot.”
Stella was airlifted to hospital where she spent five days.
She was featured in Tuesday's episode of Helicopter ER, on the Really channel which follows the life-saving work of Yorkshire Air Ambulance crews.
The Mirror reported how a dog walker was left fighting for her life after she was almost battered to death by a herd of rampaging cows in an unprovoked attack.
Sharon Eley was crossing a public field when she was surrounded by 20 cows and tossed to the ground, before they repeatedly headbutted her in the five-minute attack in May.
And the 51-year-old was almost strangled to death when her bag strap wrapped around her throat - leaving her with a ligature mark commonly seen on hanging victims.
Sharon remembered: "It was terrifying. I thought 'oh my god I'm actually going to die by a cow attack"
