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Jorjina Odisho, 51, was in the middle of a doctor’s appointment in Niddrie when an out-of-control car ploughed into the clinic, killing one male pedestrian and leaving her with serious injuries on Monday.
The mother-of-two told 9News that being 10 minutes early to her appointment may have saved her life.
“I said, [I’ve] died. That’s it. That is the last minute for me,” Odisho said.
“Very lucky, very lucky because the whole building was on me.”
Odisho was airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after being flung across the room during the crash.
She woke up in the emergency room without knowing what had happened.
“I was scared because I’ve got two girls and my husband… I said I’m not going to leave them alone.”
The crash fractured Odisho’s leg and left her in a neck brace.
”The police… they asked me, ‘Do you know what’s happened?’ I said, ‘Yes I think it’s a bomb,'” Odisho said.
“And he laughed and he said, ‘No, the car hit you’.”
Dr Rafid Hamdan was in the room when Odisho was injured, but he was not hurt in the crash.
“The patient was flying… she was like flying to the ceiling,” Hamdan said yesterday.
The crash killed one man who was on the footpath near the doctor’s office on Keilor Road.
He is yet to be formally identified.
“I feel sorry for him,” Odisho added.
The 63-year-old driver was questioned by police and released without charge.
Detectives are not ruling anything out, including whether he suffered a diabetic episode.
Detective Inspector Craig McEvoy said on Monday that the car, a silver Alfa Romeo, did not appear to brake before it smashed into the medical centre.
“We’re still considering all options, whether it’s a medical event, whether it’s a mechanical event, whether it’s driver error, speed, fatigue, drugs or alcohol,” McEvoy said.
McEvoy said the pedestrian who was killed was sadly in the “wrong place at the wrong time”.
”It’s really tragic that one [pedestrian] has lost his life, but really fortunate that there’s not multiple,” he said.
An investigation into the crash continues.
