Belly piercing teen 'lucky to be alive'

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A student has given warning of the potential dangers of body piercings, after she was almost killed when her belly-button stud tore through her stomach “like a bullet” during a car accident.

Jessica Collins, 19, from Radyr, Cardiff, is recovering from surgery at a hospital in Munich, where the crash happened. The seatbelt she was wearing forced the metal stud through her body almost to her spine, causing serious internal injuries.

Her mother, Amanda Beadle, who has flown out to Germany to be by her bedside, compared her daughter’s injuries to a bullet wound and said that she was lucky to be alive. Jessica has urged friends to remove their own piercings.

The accident, which happened last week while she was on a working holiday taking photographs of cathedrals, also left the student with facial injuries and blood on her brain. But the most serious injuries occurred as a result of her piercing.

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Mrs Beadle, 37, of Cardiff, said: “The seatbelt pushed her stud all the way through her stomach to her spine. She told me, ‘All my friends have got belly button piercings. Please let everyone know what has happened’. The piercing was like a bullet going through her stomach. If it had not been for the piercing, she would not have been in a life-threatening situation.”

She said that her daughter had undergone a three-hour operation and was lucky that a paramedic had been in the car behind her when the crash happened. The emergency worker called an air ambulance and surgeons were able to treat her within the first vital hour after the accident.

Infections and other complications because of piercings are thought to cost the NHS up to £1.5 million a year.

Chris Beadle, Jessica’s step-father, said: “She’s only a slight girl to start with, but the lap belt has pulled so tightly that the front part of her waist was pushed up against her spine. The doctor described it like a bullet hole.

“He was fascinated from a medical point of view. He’d never seen anything like it before.”

Mr Beadle said that Jessica was starting to recover. “She started eating some food. It’s a bit like baby food. It will be some time before she can eat properly.

“She’s on her feet now, obviously in a lot of pain but high spirited. Her dad came out mid-week to see her and her friends are coming at the weekend. She’s very emotional about everything that’s happened but on the mend.”

Jessica, who is studying art at Pontypridd College, got the silver-coloured stud when she was 15.

Mr Beadle said that his step-daughter was determined to make others with piercings aware of the possible risks.

He said many of Jessica’s friends had removed their own studs since the crash. “It was a freak accident. I can’t say I’ve ever heard of anything like this before, but for a decorative bit of jewellery, it’s not worth the risk.”

The driver of the car, Devdutt Shaftri, of Butetown, Cardiff, suffered a broken leg in the crash and has since been released from hospital. The family say that the police told them nobody was at fault for the accident.

Jessica was in intensive care for five days, and is not expected to return to Britain until the week after next.
https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article2570494.ece
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Heard this on the radio last night.

is this the first though?
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[Ben.]

oo fuck off you think because of one accident that everyone should take them out. Just unlucky. This nanny culture will soon stop piercieng's though because of this one lass.
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