{"id":765330,"date":"2026-06-28T07:55:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T07:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/765330\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T07:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T07:55:20","slug":"i-better-call-my-mum-because-i-might-die-here-sydney-mans-remarkable-act-after-horror-crash-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/765330\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I better call my mum, because I might die here\u2019: Sydney man\u2019s remarkable act after horror crash | EXCLUSIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exclusive: The first thing Jason Sawyer remembers thinking after he was T-boned by a 4WD was that he should ring his mum Kylie.<\/p>\n

He had been riding his motorcycle along Milperra Road in Revesby in Sydney\u2019s<\/a> south-west on a cold, wet night on May 26 when a car allegedly ran a red light.<\/p>\n

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Jason Sawyer was riding his motorcycle in Sydney on May 26 when he was struck by a car.\u00a0Supplied<\/p>\n

Sawyer was flung 15 metres from his bike after the full weight of the ute crushed his femur.<\/p>\n

The heavy rain pounded the bitumen as he lay in the middle of the road, his shattered leg sticking out at an odd angle.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just thought, \u2018I better call my mum because I might die here\u2019,\u201d Sawyer told nine.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI know that I had to tell her what had happened, and that I love her.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old was alone for several agonisingly long minutes before bystanders came to help.<\/p>\n

A crowd had gathered and someone called Triple-Zero. Sawyer was fading in and out of consciousness.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just remember my leg hurting so much that I didn\u2019t feel how much it hurt, if that makes sense,\u201d Sawyer said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just blindingly painful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Daryl Payne was driving back from work and noticed the panicked faces standing over something in the middle of traffic.<\/p>\n

The student paramedic swung around and headed to the scene.<\/p>\n

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Student paramedic Daryl Payne seen helping Sawyer as paramedics arrived.\u00a0Supplied<\/p>\n

His emergency service instincts kicked in.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Payne stood over Sawyer, murmuring words of comfort and cutting off his boots and thick motorcycle gear as they waited for the ambulance to arrive.<\/p>\n

He wrapped a space blanket around Sawyer, which was luckily in his car thanks to his work as a Newborn and Paediatric Emergency Transport Service (NETS) driver.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s there speaking to me, and he\u2019s checking my leg, and he\u2019s making sure that I\u2019m fine, and that I\u2019m breathing\u2026 all these things,\u201d Sawyer recalled.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t really realise how bad my leg was because I just refused to look down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sawyer had badly fractured his leg in four different places and in four different ways.<\/p>\n

According to Payne, it was a miracle his injuries were concentrated in one place.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo break a femur\u2026 you\u2019ve done a decent amount of injury,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd not to have any injury anywhere else is very, very surprising.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jason Sawyer (right) with his mum and twin brother, Stephen.\u00a0Supplied<\/p>\n

Sawyer\u2019s mum Kylie raced to the scene to find her son after he called her with the news. <\/p>\n

Mercifully, paramedics had already arrived to help.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey worked on him for about two hours while he laid in the middle of the road,\u201d Kylie recalled.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was horrible\u2026 just hearing his screaming.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d never heard anything like it before in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sawyer was taken to hospital, where he underwent two surgeries and had four blood transfusions to save his life.<\/p>\n

He had compartment syndrome, his leg so swollen from the severe trauma that he almost lost it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d wake up 10 times a night just vomiting blood,\u201d Sawyer recalled.<\/p>\n

Like his leg, Sawyer\u2019s memory of the crash is fractured.<\/p>\n

But he does remember Payne\u2019s kindness and reassurance.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just this immense feeling of safety and comfort. I can\u2019t really put it into words\u2026 like I felt like I was gonna die,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw him, it was just like, wow, I\u2019m safe now, I\u2019m going to be fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jason Sawyer reunited with student paramedic Daryl Payne in hospital.\u00a0Supplied<\/p>\n

Kylie was similarly blown away by Payne\u2019s actions the evening she almost lost her son.<\/p>\n

She was determined to thank him and traced his contact details through NETS.<\/p>\n

After getting his phone number, she invited Payne to visit Sawyer in hospital.<\/p>\n

Payne, who graduates from his paramedicine course in February, was touched that the family wanted to thank him in person.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things with being with working in an ambulance… you never ever get that follow-up,\u201d Payne said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just so surreal to actually have someone reach out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Payne arrived at Sawyer\u2019s bedside with a pair of thongs to jokingly \u201capologise for cutting off his boots\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t believe someone could be so selfless, to take time after work, to go visit some random guy who you saw crash,\u201d Sawyer added.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is just an incredible human being.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sawyer is still in hospital as he endures a \u201cpainful and traumatic\u201d recovery.<\/p>\n

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The 23-year-old faces a long recovery after the crushing injury to his leg.\u00a0Supplied<\/p>\n

He hopes he can soon walk without assistance and eventually ride his beloved motorcycle again.<\/p>\n

His dream after leaving hospital is to pursue a career in cybersecurity, his main passion outside exploring Sydney on his bike.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce I was given my laptop, it was like, wow, I can actually accomplish things,\u201d Sawyer added.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been feeling trapped and hopeless.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I almost died so many times. I\u2019ve been given his perspective back, there\u2019s no point holding back and waiting for life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police are investigating the circumstances of the crash and a spokesperson for NSW Police told nine.com.au<\/a> that inquiries are ongoing.<\/p>\n

No charges have been laid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exclusive: The first thing Jason Sawyer remembers thinking after he was T-boned by a 4WD was that he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-765330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765330","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=765330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}