An incredible fall that cost her dozens of stitches, approximately 40, at the Heraklion General Hospital, was suffered by a 40-year-old woman who fell into a pothole on a street in Crete. The woman, a mother of two children aged five and seven, has been immobilized since last week and will file a lawsuit against the municipality for an incident that occurred last Thursday, May 21, on her name day, as she emphasized to MEGA, “I can’t cope right now being bedridden.” The woman is seen in video falling into the pothole with her left foot and getting up. She then entered a café until she realized her pants were soaked with blood. “The blood was ‘flooding’ and we were shocked. When people ‘opened it up’, all they could do was stop the bleeding a little and send me straight to the emergency hospital,” the 40-year-old said characteristically. Her ordeal, however, didn’t end with the stitches, as an infection developed. She was readmitted to the hospital: “We were admitted now, hospitalization after a week with fever and we necessarily have to stay here to fight it. The wound was very deep. They did a lot of stitches.”
Crete: Appeared like a small crack
Testimonies suggest the municipality initially ignored the issue and later engaged in poor workmanship, making the pothole much more dangerous. Shop owners stated it wasn’t the first person to fall: “Many people have fallen. It was a big pothole and as time passed it opened up more.” Indeed, the municipality had been called, as the depth of the pothole wasn’t visible, with passersby assuming it was a small crack in the asphalt. It had not, as emphasized, responded to the appeals. “The shop owners were calling out. People have fallen both before and after me. That is, even after I left the scene, others fell. And while they had made many requests, had informed the municipality many times, they didn’t go. They went and fixed it and now it’s somehow ‘patched’ I’ll tell you. Not fixed.” After the 40-year-old’s injury they were forced to fix it, however they literally made a hole in water, as the pothole opened again after a few hours.
