The moment a man almost lost a leg caught on film.
A Lincolnshire builder’s leg has been saved by Nottingham surgeons after it was ripped off when the garage he was demolishing collapsed on top of him.
Former paratrooper Jake Weir had to dig himself out of a huge pile of bricks and concrete after the accident, in which his severed leg was left hanging from his body by only a strand of skin.
He said: “I’ve had flashbacks of that moment, it still haunts me. Honestly, I thought I was gone, I thought that was it.”
The exact moment the father-of-one got crushed was caught on video by the man who had commissioned Weir to demolish his garage.
Read more here or view the thankfully-not-graphic video below:
