Susan Eyden: Mount Cooke crash victim takes first independent breath and says she will ‘never drive again’

After a traumatic multi -vehicle accident, a Perth grandmother, who spent last week fighting for her life in the hospital, won her consciousness, took her first independent breath and swore that she would never last again.

Susan Eyden was going on with his grandson Grace Thompson, on July 7, when he was involved in a deadly accident with three other vehicles on the Albany Motorway near the Cooke Road in MT Cooke, he was sitting in the back seat of his car.

The accident took the lives of two 83 -year -old people and injured six people.

Mrs. Eyden was going from Albany to Port Kennedy, where Gracee lived, young people were looking forward to spending the first week of school holidays at Nanna and Pop’s house.

The 70 -year -old lady was much worse than three surgeries to repair the damage given to her intestines, skulls, ribs and collar bones.

As he continued to heal, he said that the Western Australia wounded him and would “not drive again”.

“I’m still grateful for living and Gracee returned home and said okay,” he said. “People need to take more care while on the road.

“After everything that happens, I prefer to trust my train or my family to walk around.”

Ms. Eyden’s husband Ted Thompson spent every awake moment with his wife’s hospital bed because he was unconscious for about a week.

Thompson, a 27 -year veteran of WA police, said that he hadn’t prepared him for the last few days and could not lose almost the most loved people.

On Thursday, he said, “The demolished does not cover it”. “Susan and Gracee are very beautiful souls, they see them like this. It hurts.”

“I made people die in my arms and saw all kinds of massacres, but when you have your own family, this is a different story, no one prepares you for it.

On Monday, Mrs. Eyden has taken her first independent breath since the accident, Mr. Thompson was described as “relaxing” and “special”.

“We took a big step on Monday,” he said. “Sue is now breathing on its own. He can whisper a little and we are still relieved and happy when he was very painful.

“SUE has developed and moved from YBU to the trauma ward for the next stage of its healing – a big step forward and a very pleasant news. A special moment.”

Thompson, who served as a traffic officer during his career, condemned police and politicians for not giving priority to WA’s embarrassing road fee.

This year’s fee is now at 118.

Last week, the Road Safety Commission confirmed that the state recorded the most death until this time of the year.

“Today’s vehicles are technologically advanced – with settled security – the road passage should be low, there are too many accidents, Thom said Thompson said.

Mr. Thompson said he should be a more visible police.

“We need more camera, more police officers, more motorcycles,” he said.

“When I first joined the job, I was on a bike and there were too many bicycles in Perth traffic, we were everywhere, we were on them, and things weren’t too bad.

“Now everyone is in a hurry and has a bad attitude about driving. People constantly force people to go faster in front of people, people are making bad decisions, doing stupid things and nothing happens, no results.”

Mr. Thompson added: “People may not like the police, but they slow down for them.

“Everyone knows that you see a uniformed police car or copper, whether you are making RBTs or speed cameras or pulling people or having a calming effect on people.

“Col Blanch and Roger Cook have enough cops on the road that ‘we’ve budgeted this’.

“What is happening to my family is not an isolated event, it is a common issue in our driving and terrible because it can be prevented.”

Together with Mr. Thompson, a WA Government spokesman, he said that there was olmad more police officers on our ways than ever before, without accepting the increase in the number of road users.

“The police carried out record high levels of enforcement activities in a direct response to the high road fee and will continue to actively implement road laws,” he said.

“Our government has invested more than $ 30 million to increase regional road safety with two new drugs and alcohol buses and a very visible highway patrol cars fleet.”