A toddler had his head internally decapitated after a severe car accident in which his family's car had a head-on collision with another vehicle that was traveling 70 mph in Australia on Sept. 15. Sixteen-month-old Jaxon Taylor was with his mother and his sister, 9, in the car during the accident in New South Wales.
"The second I pulled him out, I knew that he - I knew that his neck was broken," Rylea Taylor, the toddler's mother said, KGNS reported.
The toddler was then airlifted to be hospitalized in Brisbane where was taken under the wing of a spinal surgeon.
"A lot of children wouldn't survive that injury in the first place," spinal surgeon Dr. Geoff Askin said, KGNS reported. "And if they did and they were resuscitated, they may never move or breathe again."
Askin is known in the medical field as the "godfather of spinal surgery," Inquisitr reported. During the six-hour surgery, Askin and his team used one of the toddler's ribs to graft back together the detached vertebrae.
The toddler's mother, on the other hand, has started to petition for a more rigorous implementation of reckless driving punishments.
"A suspended license and fine changes nothing for the driver, Australia needs to deter others from ruining innocent people's life's [sic]," the mother wrote, according to DB Techno. "If they carry substantial punishments might actually make people think twice before driving recklessly."
An 18-year-old man from New South Wales faces two counts of dangerous driving and another for negligent driving that caused grievous bodily harm, Yahoo! News reported.
