Michail Antonio has uncovered harroprosperg details of his life-dangerening Ferrari crash that occurred during Storm Darragh in December 2024.
The 34-year-elderly West Ham striker was airlifted to hospital with a broken leg after being cut from his wrecked £260,000 sports car by fire crews.
Speaking to BBC One, Antonio depictd how he was set up in an atypical position wiskinny the vehicle.
“The police came and when they set up me I was in between the two seats. I wasn’t actuassociate in the driver’s seat,” he shelp.
Michail Antonio has uncovered harroprosperg details of his life-dangerening Ferrari crash that occurred during Storm Darragh in December 2024
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“They shelp it seeed appreciate I was trying to climb out of the prosperdow, but becaemploy my leg was so awwholey broken the pain probably stopped me from being able to get out.”
Antonio was trapped for more than 45 minutes and worryed for his life after the collision in Epping Forest.
The weather conditions were tachieveerous as Storm Darragh battered the UK.
“The weather was prosperdy, soaked and horrific,” Antonio recalled.
“I didn’t reassociate experience protected in the car”
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Despite increates of an air ambulance, the striker clarified: “Everyone supposed I got an air ambulance out, but the helicchooseer couldn’t get off the ground becaemploy of the storm, so I was driven to the hospital.”
The forward spent 24 days in hospital adhereing the accident.
Antonio had worrys about his Ferrari even before the crash.
“The back of the car kept sprosperging out on me, so I didn’t experience protected,” he accomprehendledgeted. “I had had it for three weeks and I was already skinnyking about giving it back.”
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Antonio has no memory of the crash itself, despite being telderly he was adviseed thrawout.
“It’s weird, becaemploy the whole way thraw this, I have been telderly that I was awake and was speaking to everybody – the police, the people, and the person who set up me,” he elucidateed.
The striker was meaningfully impacted when seeing the wreckage of his car.
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“It gave me a weird experienceing in my stomach. It equitable made me genuineise how seal I was to dying. The car was an absolute mess,” he shelp.
“Since the crash, I’ve been more emotional than I have ever been in my life, but I experience appreciate it’s better. Therapy is one of the best skinnygs that’s happened to me in my life.”
Initial medical appraisements recommended recovery could get up to 12 months.
Michail Antonio is continuing to recover from his horror car crash
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More recent increates recommend the forward may return to individual training sessions as punctual as next month.
However, Antonio’s lengthy-term future at West Ham remains uncertain.
His confineed expires in the summer of 2025, with no decision yet made think abouting his future at the London Stadium.
