A northern suburbs mother has shared her 16-year-old daughter’s freak accident at a Perth ice rink in which she fell and cut her thigh on her own skate blade, losing “about a litre’s worth of blood”.
And the Carramar mum Karli Goodall has thanked the good Samaritan that came to her daughter Lurrae’s aid on the ice.
Lurrae was skating with her boyfriend at Perth Ice Arena in Malaga on April 6 when she had the freak accident, which resulted in an ambulance transferring her to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital for internal and external stitches.
“I think her skate just hit the ice wrong,” Ms Goodhall said.
“Her right leg sort of bent and that’s where the blade cut the top of the thigh; we thought it was the femoral artery because the cut was right where it is and that’s why she bled so quickly.
“She tried to get up but when she put her hand where the blade had hit her, she felt the wet and that’s when she realised that her hand was covered in blood. When they put the lights back up, that’s when they realised how much she was actually losing.
“She lost about a litre of blood very quickly and her boyfriend went to get some help; when he returned a lady was helping her because she was in and out of consciousness by that stage because she bled so quickly.
“The lady took her jumper off and tied it around her leg and that’s when she started coming back, but obviously she was a little bit disoriented.”
Ms Goodall said it was at this stage that she was contacted about her daughter’s accident, along with an ambulance.
“The cut was probably only about an inch to two inches long but it was quite deep, because I think it must have caught the front of back end of the blade and that’s gone in quite deep,” she said.
Ms Goodall said the family wanted to make other parents aware of the potential dangers.
“Obviously we thought it was just going to be a fun night for them but it turned into something that could have been far more serious,” she said.
Perth Ice Arena was contacted for comment, describing the incident as “simply an accident” and saying it had done “nothing wrong”.
“There was no so-called nasty fall and only a small injury occurred,” the arena said in its response.
After the accident, Ms Goodall took to Facebook community groups to try find the good Samaritan who came to her daughter’s aid.
After various online posts searching for the woman, Ms Goodall said she was eventually able to find her and plans have been made to meet and thank her for her potentially life-saving actions.