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.
Watch the full documentary below
READ MORE
• READ BEN’S STORY IN HIS OWN WORDS
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.
Originally published as While I Was Sleeping: Documentary detailing Ben Hyde’s life-changing car crash
‘Miracle’: SA man’s recovery from rare auto-immune disease
A 79-year-old keen cyclist from Willunga man credits positive thinking with saving him from a rare disease, ANCA vasculitis, after he experienced severe pains while in Thailand.
Read more
‘Needless’ welfare checks slashed to save SAPOL time
SA Police have slashed the amount of time officers spend at unnecessary welfare checks as part of a trial of a new triage system.
Read more