Miracle Boy Whose Neck Was Severed In Car Crash

Surgeons have preferred ground-breaking surgery on a 16-month-old boy from NSW, whose neck was severed in a horrific car crash.

Jaxon Taylor could have been left a quadriplegic after a high speed, head-on collision on the Newell Highway left him with life-threatening injuries.

Jaxon’s mother Rylea Taylor said they were travelling about 110km/h when the collision with an 18-year-old driver occurred on September 15.

The toddler’s upper vertebrae was torn apart and his head internally severed.

Jaxon's mother Rylea says it is a miracle that he will make a full recovery. — *Jaxon’s mother Rylea says it is a miracle that he will make a full recovery.*

“As I pulled my son from the car I knew his neck was broken, as bystanders,” she wrote on an online petition calling for tougher punishments for reckless drivers.

“As my inlaws, who were traveling behind us, assisted getting my 9 year old from the car, I tried to remain calm, I tried desperately to hold my children, I told them we were ok.

“Even thou my heart told me otherwise, I tried not to cry, I tried to be strong because they needed me”.

Jaxon was flown to a hospital in Bribane and into the care of Australia’s leading spinal surgeon Geoff Askin. There he went in for ground-breaking surgery where doctors managed to save his spinal chord from damage.

Jaxon Taylor is expected to make a full recovery after doctor's reattached his head to his spine after it was severed in a car crash. — *Jaxon Taylor is expected to make a full recovery after doctor’s reattached his head to his spine after it was severed in a car crash.*

“A lot of children wouldn’t survive that injury in the first place,” Dr Askin told Seven News Melbourne.“And if they did and they were resuscitated they may never move or breathe again.

“How that spinal cord has managed to go around that corner and not sever is a miracle.”

While Jaxon will have to wear a neck brace for several months he has already taken giant strides and is expected to make a full recovery.