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.
“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”.
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.
“It is a miracle,” Rylea Taylor said.