UPDATE: Highway concrete block victim out of coma
“We laughed, cried, hugged and kissed…it was a very big moment.”
JC Roos opened his eyes for the first time in hospital on Tuesday morning, after he was hit by a cement block in the face while travelling with his wife and daughter last month, on the N4 highway.
“Early this morning he opened his eyes. We laughed, cried, hugged and kissed. It was a very big moment,” JC’s wife, Claudia told Rekord.
Claudia said he appeared a bit restless.
The Roos family are originally from Rustenburg. Claudia has been staying with her brother in Krugersdorp since JC was admitted to Milpark hospital and visits him daily.
The couple’s daughter is currently staying with Claudia’s mother.
Claudia said her husband’s facial injuries were healing “better than expected”.
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“But he doesn’t have a lot of teeth left, so he will have to get dental implants.”
Claudia was still waiting to see the doctor to discuss the road to recovery.
On Friday evening 22 September, JC was taken to the Milpark hospital in Johannesburg with facial injuries after a concrete block was thrown through the windscreen of his vehicle on the N4 highway.
The couple and their one-year-old daughter had been driving under a bridge to take the N4 Hartebeespoort dam off-ramp on their way to visit Claudia’s mother in Welkom, Free State, from their Rustenburg, North West home when the block was thrown at their vehicle.
Claudia said her husband, who was driving, immediately lost consciousness when the block hit him.
The nightmare, however, did not end there for Claudia – while attempting to flag down vehicles for assistance, she was approached by a would-be armed robber.
“A guy pointed a gun at me and asked me for money and I told him he can take everything and I asked him not shoot any of us,” she said.
The armed man allegedly fled after taking a look at Claudia’s injured husband.
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