Friday 2 January 2015

Illinois man has car part removed from his arm 50 years after crash

By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - An Illinois man had a turn signal lever removed from inside his arm after the car part lodged into his limb, unbeknownst to him, during a crash five decades ago. Arthur Lampitt, 75, of Granite City, Illinois, had the 7-inch-long piece - once one part of a 1963 Thunderbird - extracted from his left arm on Wednesday during a 45-minute surgery. The thin, cylindrical object became lodged in his arm after the Thunderbird collided head-on with a truck in 1963. Lampitt suffered a broken right hip and broken ribs. "I was banged up pretty good," he said on Friday. ... via Health News Headlines - Yahoo News Read More Here..

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