"Marc Brew was sitting in the back seat of a car on a motorway near Johannesburg, telling jokes and laughing with his friends, when a pickup came hurtling down the wrong side of the road towards them. Out of nowhere, I just remember seeing this white flash, says Brew, who was 20 at the time. The truck, which he later found out had a drunk driver at the wheel, drove straight into the car he was in. The crash killed everyone else in the vehicle."
"Nine months previously, Brew had moved from Australia to South Africa to join the Pact ballet company, based in Pretoria. That Saturday, he had attended his usual morning dance classes, before he and his friend Joanne, another member of the company, set off with her brother, Simon, and Simon's fiancee's brother, Toby, towards a game reserve where they had planned to go bush walking."
"When the truck hit, it was like time froze, Brew, now 48, recalls. I remember my ears were ringing really loud, like I'd been at a concert. Joanne had fallen off the seat next to Brew's and was at his feet. In the front of the car, Brew remembers seeing Simon slumped over the steering wheel and Toby, who was only 16, on the dashboard. I was trying to yell out to them, but I didn't know if I was being verbal."
Marc Brew moved from Australia to South Africa to join the Pact ballet company in Pretoria. At age 20 he attended morning dance classes and then traveled with friends Joanne, her brother Simon, and Toby toward a game reserve for bush walking. A pickup driven by an intoxicated driver collided head-on while coming down the wrong side of the road. The collision killed everyone else in the car. Brew experienced intense ringing in his ears, neck pain, and temporary paralysis, and lost consciousness. He woke with gravel in the back of his head, was moved to the roadside, and was placed into an ambulance and a helicopter.
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