00:01Four years ago, Harry Gray stepped off a school bus in Darwin's rural area and his life changed forever.
00:08Because I didn't look both ways.
00:11When I was running, there was a car coming and it hit me.
00:19Harry became the first child in the Northern Territory placed into an induced coma in the back of an ambulance.
00:25He spent a month in hospital in Darwin and another three in Adelaide.
00:30I had to learn how to talk, eat and walk and everything again.
00:40This National Road Safety Awareness Week, Harry is catching up with the paramedics who saved his life.
00:45The emotions run high in a case like that and adrenaline. Sometimes you need to take a moment to steady
00:57yourself.
00:58With Harry coming in today, it made me feel quite emotional. Obviously it hits home.
01:03Harry and his mum Paula are hoping that their story makes a difference.
01:07Especially in the Northern Territory where the road fatality rate is nearly three times the national average.
01:12If it gets through to one person, even one child, that stops and thinks before they run across the road,
01:19then we've done our job.
01:22An inspiration and a cautionary tale this Road Safety Week.
01:26To be continued...
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