The nurse who was beaten unconscious when Victim actress Amanda Meealing plowed into his car, while high on cocaine said he happily regretted himself that he is alive.
Meeling, 57, would have had to deal with the traumatic death of her father, her best friend and her dog when she used the class A drug the night before the smash.
The car drove over the road and crashed into an oncoming Skoda that was driven by nurse Mark Le Sage, who was seriously injured and therefore had to give up his career.
The accident happened at 10.14 am on January 26 last year, just a few meters away from her front door in Deeping St. Nicholas, Lincolnshire.
Last night, Mr. Le Sage, 58, said that he was lucky to live after the Smash while he was driving his 1.6ton Skoda Kodiaq – the biggest SUV in the company.
The councilor said to the mail: “I was lucky that I was in such a substantial car, I almost took my motorcycle out that day.”
He said he had completed a bend to see the mini of Mealing on the wrong side of the road. “I just got around the corner and” scared, “it was right in front of me and she hit the front corner of my car,” he said.
The father of three and grandfather of five said he was beaten unconscious by the impact and “came to discover that the car was filled with smoke.”
Mark Le Sage was seriously injured at De Smash and therefore had to give up his career
Magistrates heard Amanda Mealing floating before he bumped into the vehicle of Mark Le Sage while he was on his way to his work
Public Prosecutor Marie Stace said that the court meeting had a cut on the head, a broken wrist and a broken collarbone in the Smash of January 2024 (photo)
'My right foot was stuck under the pedal, but I thought the car was on fire and I was just desperate to get out. I think the adrenaline started and I could free myself. The driver's side of the car was bashed, but I got out of the passenger side and fell on the road.
'I now know that the smoke was caused by the airbags that left, but I didn't know that at the time. I am very lucky. The fire brigade told me afterwards that if I was in a smaller vehicle, it might have been a different story. '
Unbelievable, once free from the wreck, the thoughts of Mr. Le Sage changed to help the woman who had caused the crash.
“I looked down and saw that she had run blood along the left side of her face,” Mr. Le Sage added.
'Fortunately there was an off-duty firefighter after my car and he had stopped me to give her first aid. I think my nurse's instincts have worked into operation – I went to her. She was still in her car. I had to make sure she was doing well. '
Mr. Le Sage said he was broken on the spot, while the police also checked his phone to ensure that he had not used it before the collision. He was assessed by paramedics and advised to attend the hospital, but the ambulance assigned to him was diverted to another emergency, so he was asked to make his own way to an accident and emergency situation to be checked.
The actress appeared in the hit film four weddings and a funeral and director episodes of victim, Waterloo Road and Coronation Street
Meal was taken to the hospital by another ambulance, while an air ambulance was also attended, he said.
The condolences of the councilor extended to the lawsuit, where he told Marie Stace on Friday to the public prosecutor that he did not want to see that it had imprisoned the meal about the collision.
Mr. Le Sage said: “The public prosecutor then passed it on to the court. She also has children and she will have suffered like me. I didn't think it was appropriate for her to be imprisoned. '
He added: “They said at the court that she was an actress, but they didn't go on it (her career).”
The accident did not allow Mr Le Sage to continue in his role as a theater nurse because he had developed a tremor, which made him trouble fulfilling spraying.
He can also no longer stand on his feet all day, or the colder temperatures of the operating room that are designed to help infection control.
But he has been able to change his role in that of a nurse in the community in the community and says that he is 'just happy that it is all over now' and grateful for the support of his family and girlfriend Emma Watson, who runs her own marketing company.
Meal admitted that he was driving in her system with cocaine and was driving without the necessary care and attention and was banned for 28 months, reduced to 22 months because she had already served an interim ban of six months.
Meal left victim in March 2021 after seven years
Meal whose brother died of an overdose of drugs when he was 18 years old, was also fined £ 485 and ordered £ 400 costs and a surcharge of £ 194. She offered to pay with a rate of £ 100 a month, which was accepted by the court.
Her lawyer Edward Lloyd described the pressure she was under at the time of the accident and said: 'Unfortunately it came into her life at a terrible moment.
'She tells me that she was undergoing a divorce procedure of her husband, which was extremely disturbing.
'In a short time her father died, she had to put her dog down and her best friend died. So all these events took place. It was deep, deeply disturbing.
“However, she is a lady who has considerable health problems. She suffers from blood cancer, so she doesn't work at the moment. '
Meal admitted that he had driven in her system with cocaine during an earlier hearing in Lincoln last September, but had denied without driving a car and attention before she changed her plea.
The actress, who has also appeared in the hit film four weddings and a funeral and directing episodes of victim, Waterloo Road and Coronation Street, had 18mcg cocaine in her blood, the legal limit was 10 mcg.
She also had more than 240 mcg benzoylecgonin (the chemical that cocaine leaves after being metabolized by the body) – almost five times on the legal limit of 50 mcg.
Public Prosecutor Marie Stace said that Mr. Le Sage, who is also a district councilor, remembered: 'An explosion and his car started to run' after Meealing's Mini Cooper in his Skoda on the A1175 in Hop pole, near Stamford in Lincolnshire.
She added: 'He started to panic, the car was full of smoke and he couldn't get out because his foot was stuck under the pedal.
“He got out and was judged by a paramedic who said he should go to the hospital.
“There was a witness who followed the mini, who said he assumed that something was in the way because it went the other side of the road.”
