"There was no ambulance available to transport a 13-year-old with a broken neck from an RFDS plane to Perth Children’s Hospital. Jaymee was taken by ambulance to Geraldton Regional Hospital and was then transferred by a Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) flight to Perth with her mother Rebecca.Īfter a 57-minute flight, Mr Brown said the family's nightmare scenario took another turn. "I would hate to think what would have happened if someone else, including myself, had stumbled upon her and not had the experience that he has," Mr Brown said. Scans have so far indicated she has not damaged her spinal cord, something Mr Brown said was due to the immediate roadside care she received from an experienced trauma responder. Mr Brown said Jaymee remembered walking on the footpath, and then waking up in an ambulance. ![]() ![]() to a piece of ice falling off a plane," he said. "We don't know what happened, we've got a few wild theories, they go from someone bashing her on the head. Her father, former Nationals MP Paul Brown, said it was not known what caused her injuries, which he described as being consistent with being speared into the ground. Scans later revealed she had "shattered" a C5 vertebra. Jaymee Brown was walking to catch the bus to her Geraldton school on Tuesday when a paramedic on his way to work found her bleeding and badly injured.
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