Dancer Vicky Balch, 20, suffered serious injuries to her leg when one carriage of The Smiler ride crashed into an empty one that had been left on the track.
Speaking to the BBC about the horror smash on June 2, Vicky said she thought she was going to die on the roller coaster.
‘It felt like slow motion. We banged into the car in front. I felt the bars go into my knees; we moved backwards and the car went into us again.’
Vicky then passed out, and was woken up by her boyfriend Dan shouting her name.
‘Everyone was screaming and I was in excruciating pain. I looked down and I could see blow all over. The bars were in my right knee.’
The injured were then left on the ride for over four hours, as firefighters reached them using a hydraulic lift.
‘The only thought that was going through my mind for the hours and hours that we were stuck was that we were going to die.’
‘If I was going to survive I would never walk again, that was certain.’
‘I just wanted to die’ Vicky said chillingly.
Her lawyer Paul Paxton has revealed they are battling very hard to save one of her legs from amputation, a week after it was revealed fellow victim Leah Washington has had her left leg amputated above the knee.