Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was involved in a terrible auto accident last week that left him in the hospital with serious injuries, which is especially dangerous for someone of his age.
According to the New York Post, the former mayor, now 81, said that the crash caused some of the worst pain he’s ever felt in his entire life, but showed optimism that he’s on the way to recovering.
Ted Goodman, Giuliani’s adviser, was also seriously injured in the crash, which involved a 19-year-old woman ramming into the back of Giuliani’s rented SUV.
Giuliani was rushed to the hospital and is currently in a back brace, according to the report. Both he and Goodman are expected to make healthy recoveries.
What’s going on?
During an interview on his own show, “The Rudy Giuliani Show,” the former NYC mayor described the night that the crash happened and how he felt about it.
“We got hit in the back, I would say, the hardest I’ve ever been hit in my whole life, including two accidents I was in when I was a child and playing football,” the two-term New York City mayor said on the show Tuesday night.
Giuliani explained that the vehicle that struck his rented vehicle was traveling at a high rate of speed, causing whiplash not just to his neck, but to his entire body as a result of the impact.
“It seemed like the car was going maximum speed 70-80 miles an hour, kind of spinned us a teeny bit…instead of getting a whiplash in my neck, I got a whiplash in my body. My body got thrown forward in a second and thrown back and I could feel the pain immediately in the middle of my body,” he said during the show.
The Post noted:
Giuliani said he was frozen in agony but managed to look over at Goodman, who was driving, to see if he was okay, noting his confidant was “constricted by the steering wheel.”
The ex-mayor attributed being alive today from the accident to wearing his seatbelt, insisting it saved his life.
“I got terrible injuries but I would have been killed if I didn’t have my seatbelt on,” he said.
Other concerns
Goodman recalled his side of the accident, saying Giuliani first checked on him to see if he was ok, and then the former mayor checked on the young woman who struck them.
The Post added:
The pair said the bleeding 19-year-old behind the wheel was crying and “very distraught.” All three were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Thank goodness Giuliani and his adviser were wearing seatbelts, as the outcome could have been much worse had they not made that choice.
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