While I Was Sleeping: Documentary detailing Ben Hyde’s life-changing car crash

Ben Hyde remembers nothing from the night he was hit from behind by a car barrelling towards him at 170km/h. Three years later, he pieced it together and met the heroes who saved his life.

Hit from behind by a car barrelling towards him at 170km/h, The Advertiser’s then deputy editor Ben Hyde became the victim of a life-changing car crash – remembering nothing of the fateful night.

Three years on, he embarked on a mission to discover exactly what happened and meet the heroes who saved his life.

They include an ex-Australian Army corporal who happened to witness the crash, an ICU nurse who had a deep impact on Ben’s traumatised family and many, many more good Samaritans.

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In the companion SA Weekend feature, Ben details what he now knows of the horror West Terrace crash; why he’s the luckiest unlucky man; how doctors repaired his broken body; the road trauma ripple effect; and how he now lives with an invisible injury.

Watch the While I Was Sleeping full documentary here.