Positivity: Doctors call man’s survival a ‘medical miracle’
Man hit by a van walks out of hospital more than a month after crash
November 16, 2007Doctors are calling the survival of a man who was run over by an out-of-control van last month in Centennial, a medical miracle.
21-year-old Victor Soto walked out of Swedish Hospital in Englewood Friday with his family, more than a month after nearly dying. He was mowing a yard near Easter and University on October 3rd when the van smashed through a backyard fence and hit him. Investigators say the paraplegic driver of the van lost control of the specially-equipped vehicle, struck a light pole, crossed all lanes of traffic, then went through a wooden fence before hitting Soto and dragging him across the yard.
Soto said today, “I only remember I was mowing a yard.” Lieutenant Ryan Knutsen with Littleton Fire and Rescue was among the first on the scene, saying “I remember seeing a tire track across his belly or chest.” Soto underwent three surgeries and was at first given less than a 50/50 chance of surviving, with most of his internal organs pushed out his back.
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