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Teen knocked off dirt bike by kangaroo breaks back and ruptures spleen

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A teenager nearly died after a kangaroo jumped into her off-road motorbike, sending her crashing to the ground.Jemima Song, 14, and her sister Isabel were riding their dirt bikes in a pine grove at a farm in western Victoria, Australia, when the accident happened.The kangaroo leaped from the trees "out of the blue" and collided with the front wheel of Jemima's bike.Isabel saw her sister lying motionless in the dirt and called their dad."I was on the ground lying there and she was wondering if I was faking it or not so she tried to pick me up to see if I was okay but I wasn't," Jemima said.The teenager was taken by air ambulance to the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne.Jemima's dad, David Song, was horrified by his daughter's wounds and thought she might die.He said: "The worst fear was going through my mind that we were going to lose her."She had this massive trauma to the left side of her body, it looked like she had just been hit by a car."Jemima suffered eight fractures to her spine, a ruptured spleen, and a ruptured liver, as well as internal bruising.She told Nine News the first thing she remembered after the accident was waking up in the air ambulance."In the helicopter, my dad is taking a photo of me and I'm giving a thumbs-up," Jemima says.MICA flight paramedic Stuart Hill said Jemina could have died if not for her helmet and protective gear, describing her as "really lucky".Jemima spent 10 days in the hospital recovering from her injuries and went back to school just two days after returning home.The teen said she didn't eat in the first six days following the accident because her stomach "shut down" but she then made a swift recovery."I wasn't really concerned about it, I just wanted to get back on the.

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