{"id":188090,"date":"2025-10-03T19:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T19:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/188090\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T19:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T19:21:11","slug":"matthew-haylett-defies-odds-after-breaking-neck-in-freak-accident-at-mullaloo-beach-by-walking-out-of-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/188090\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Haylett defies odds after breaking neck in freak accident at Mullaloo Beach by walking out of hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">A teenager who faced the prospect of never walking again after a breaking his neck in a freak beach accident has defied the odds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Matthew Haylett, 18, dived into a sandbar at Mullaloo six months ago, leaving him paralysed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">On Friday, he finally walked out of hospital \u2014 taking the first steps of the rest of his life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Matthew was instantly paralysed when he dove headfirst into a sandbar at Mullaloo Beach in March.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/16cdb47409bd4f757d57de236b21865fd806a3e5.jpg\" alt=\"Matthew Haylett finally walked out of hospital on Friday.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconMatthew Haylett finally walked out of hospital on Friday. Credit: 7NEWS<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6cb64ef43d5ace101838b91a36f7bd4954b0bdc3.jpg\" alt=\"Matthew Haylett embracing loved ones.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconMatthew Haylett embracing loved ones. Credit: 7NEWS<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">His mate Camden Atfield heroically pulled him to shore before he was rushed to Royal Perth Hospital for spinal surgery. He then faced months of rehabilitation at Fiona Stanley Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cI think when the waves came back he just started screaming,\u201d Camden said after the incident earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cHe was completely paralysed. He was like, \u2018I can\u2019t move\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenager who faced the prospect of never walking again after a breaking his neck in a freak&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,46,45],"class_list":["post-188090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-perth","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}