Doctors reattach toddler's DECAPITATED head after horror car crash
THIS toddler has made a miracle recovery after his head was DECAPITATED in a near-death car crash.
Little Jackson Taylor is now on the mend
Little Jackson Taylor is now on the mend after surgeons miraculously reattached his head to his neck.
The 16-month-old toddler suffered the horrific injuries after the car he was travelling in with his mother and sister crashed head on with another vehicle at 70mph.
The force from the collision was so intense that Jackson's head pulled apart from his neck in an internal decapitation.
But top medics were aable to reattach the boy's vertebrae using wire and a piece of his rib during a gruelling six-hour operation.
The toddler is now wearing apparatus which keep his body stable
Jackson suffered horrific injuries after the car he was travelling in crashed head on
It's a miracle
Spinal surgeon, Dr Geoff Askin, said: "A lot of children wouldn't survive that injury in the first place, and if they did and they were resuscitated then they may never move or breathe again."
He is now wearing apparatus - or what his family call a "halo" to keep his body stable, which will be removed in eight weeks.
After that, little Jackson, who is from Australia, will be able to live a normal and healthy life again.
His relieved mother Rylea Taylor aded: "It's a miracle. The second I pulled him out I knew that his neck was broken."
The pioneering operation took 7 hours
An eight-year-old boy became the youngest patient to receive a double-hand transplant in July this year.
Delighted Zion Harvey, who lost his hands and feet to serious infection as a toddler, proudly showed off his new hands after the pioneering surgery.
Jackson will go on to live a healthy and happy life