John Smallwood Cycling Accident – North Sea oil exploration employee, John Smallwood has reportedly passed away. On Wednesday, April 13 at 9 p.m. on Channel 4, John and Suki Smallwood appeared on 24 Hours in A&E. In 2021, a car turned directly across 43-year-old geophysicist John Smallwood as he was riding his bicycle home from work in Merstham, Surrey, along the A23 in central London.
What happened to John Smallwood?
After colliding with the side of the vehicle, John, a father of three little children, had potentially fatal injuries to his head, face, and spine in addition to a brain hemorrhage. After being intubated on the spot, he was transported by ambulance to St George’s Hospital in Tooting, where he was placed in an induced coma and transferred to critical care.
The conversation between the physicians trying to save John in Wednesday’s episode of 24 Hours in A&E makes it quite evident how seriously injured he is. His nose, which was hanging by a thread, was one of the worst injuries that surgeons fixed on that first day. The show concludes with John being taken into surgery, but for his family, it was the start of a four-month hospital stay aimed at saving his life.
About John Smallwood
They treated his facial injuries and spine two days later. A follow-up CT scan showed that John’s brain injuries were more severe than initially thought when he did not emerge from the induced coma as anticipated. John, a University of Cambridge graduate, was an avid triathlete before to the accident. In addition, he was a parent governor at the nearby school and played the trombone.
He led a group engaged in North Sea oil exploration while employed by a large oil corporation. John spent ten weeks at St George’s and then five weeks at St Mary’s Roehampton in a specialized neurorehabilitation wing before being sent home. Even though he hasn’t returned to work after seven months, he is able to jog gently and is thinking about getting back on his mountain bike.
About Suki Smallwood
Even the idea of road riding is far off due to the stress of the event. Suki Smallwood, who postponed finishing her doctorate in psychology to care for John, expressed her gratitude to the medical personnel for helping her husband get to the point where he was able to leave the hospital.
Whatever the NHS did for her spouse, she calls it ‘wonderful’. As part of an accident-related insurance claim, Mrs. Smallwood sought Jill Greenfield’s assistance at Fieldfisher in the weeks after the accident to arrange private rehabilitation therapy that would begin as soon as he was released from the hospital.
