Teenager impaled on spike
NZPA-AP New York A teenager impaled on an iron spike atop a twometre fence was in a stable condition yesterday after doctors removed it from his neck and mouth. The accident occurred on Sunday as Julio Castillo, aged 15, played ball with friends outside his apartment in the New York City borough of Queens. He slipped as he climbed over the wroughtiron fence to retrieve a ball.
The square spike, about an inch wide, entered his neck and came out of his mouth, just missing his jugular vein. “He was petrified, but he was pretty brave,” said a fireman who sawed off part of the fence in a hospital emergency room. Fred Horen, an administrator at the City Hospital Centre at Elmhurst, said the main injuries were to the youth’s lower jaw and teeth.
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