The only way is via Essex Star Yazmin Oukhellou has revealed she had to ‘grab’ the arm to escape the wreckage of a car crash that killed her boyfriend Jake McLean.
Mr McLean died in the crash earlier this month after his car drove over a cliff Bodrum, Turkeywhen the couple returned from a night out.
In a new interview, Ms Oukhellou, 28, explained that Mr McLean was driving and she slept in the passenger seat.
she saidThe sun it felt like the car was “just tumbling for what felt like an eternity” and she felt like she was “walking around in a washing machine”.
Ms Oukhellou added: “Then it finally stopped and my right arm was pinched.
“The car was upside down. It had an open sunroof and my right arm just tucked behind my back and under the folded-back car roof.
“I tried to honk my foot but I couldn’t.”
She said that unbeknownst to her at the time, she had severed an artery and could feel her arm “completely covered in blood,” making her feel like she was “lying in a hot bath.”
Jake McLean and Yazmin Oukhellou had an on-off relationship
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“At the same time, I was trying to wake Jake up,” Ms. Oukhellou recalled. “In my head I was like, ‘OK, he’s just passed out; I live, so he must live.’ I didn’t want to admit to myself that he might be dead.
“So I thought, ‘Okay, I can either lie still and bleed to death or break my own arm to try and save us – I didn’t have a choice.
“So I kind of broke my arm through pure adrenaline and panic. I got out of the car and clasped my arm with my left hand.
“I ran to the top of the bench. I screamed for help and then all of a sudden I saw a flashlight.”
She said she came across a man walking his dog, who helped her by wrapping his shirt around her arm.
Ms Oukhellou said she climbed down to the car, checked Mr McLean’s pulse and felt nothing.
Mr McLean, 33, has been pronounced dead while Ms Oukhellou has been taken to hospital.
The couple had been in an on-and-off relationship for years. She was in Turkey where he was traveling with friends to try to reconcile with him.
Ms Oukhellou said she was lucky that she was sleeping when the crash happened because as her body was more relaxed it helped her survive the impact.
“The doctors called me an angel, a miracle because it’s a notorious place and people never survived,” she said.
