More than $60k has been raised online for an Australian woman involved in a terrible crash in Bali.
Victoria Van de Stadt, 25, and Louis Macindoe, 26, were mowed down by a car when they were riding a motorbike in Canggu on Nov. 30 and ‘left for dead’, according to a GoFundMe page set up to raise funds for Van de Stadt’s mounting medical expenses.
Van de Stadt, who goes by ‘Tori’ was left with “devastating facial and spinal injuries” and will require a complete facial reconstruction, the crowdfunding page, set up by Van de Stadt’s close friend Hayley McCloy, reads. The page also explains the charges Van de Stadt has racked up:
With a long road of recovery ahead, Tori must undergo major facial reconstructive surgery and ongoing treatment. The international hospital fees and travel expenses to transport her safely back to Australia have already amounted to over $60 thousand dollars.
Van de Stadt was “lucky” that her skin wasn’t badly wounded and only cut in a few places—the severest injuries are internal, her mother told Australian reporters.
“All of the damage is underneath, so she’s going to get her pretty face back,” Van de Stadt’s mother, Tracey Priestley said, as quoted by the Newcastle Herald.
“Just imagine telling a 25-year-old girl that she was going to be permanently disfigured.
The Newcastle couple had been coming back from their last dinner in Bali when the car allegedly hit them from behind.
The accident could’ve claimed the couple’s lives, but an Australian tourist apparently stumbled upon the accident scene and helped.
“Thankfully, an Australian man came across the scene and assisted Tori in breathing for over an hour before an ambulance arrived,” the GoFundMe page says.
“The guy that found Tori had to keep her airways open for over an hour until the ambulance arrived because her face was so smashed up,” Priestley explained.
“Even Louis would have bled to death had someone not found them. We don’t know how long they were there for.”
Though accounts seem to vary on some key details, the accident seems to be the same one that Badung police described to Bali reporters as happening on Canggu’s Jl. Batu Mejan on Nov. 30. Police said their patrol officers found an Australian man and woman lying in the bushes after a motorbike crash. The names and ages are slightly off from what Bali media reported, but local media is a bit notorious for inaccurately getting down names and correct spellings.
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