Olympic silver medallist and world men Javelin champion, Julius Yego cheated death with a whisker when his vehicle collided with a trailer on Sunday night.
Speaking to Citizen Digital shortly after the accident, the fifth best thrower of all time assured the world he was fine after being rushed to Eldoret’s Medihill Hospital after his vehicle that he had only recently acquired braved the massive impact as he emerged unscathed but shaken.
“I would have been past tense, there is this guy who was driving a trailer and he suddenly made a U-turn in the middle of the road. I slammed so hard on the brakes and I thought I had broken my leg.
“There was no way I could avoid him, I only picked the car last week and if it was a small vehicle, then there is no telling what would have happened but I’m fine,” Yego, who was greatful to God after surviving the near-death experience said exclusively.
He was driving a Toyota Prado 4×4 vehicle at the time of the accident.
“The accident happened in Eldoret, along Kapsoya Road near Equity Bank but he is okay. He was rushed to Medihill and found to be fine. The car was very new and the vehicle has been towed but the sight was bad.
“If he had a passenger, they would be no more. He was luckily driving alone but the vehicle is now a write off,” the equally relieved fellow Beijing 2015 gold medallist and three-time world men 1500m champion, Asbel Kiprop, who rushed to the scene after the Yego horror smash said.
Two-years ago, Kiprop also survived after his 4×4 veered off the road and crashed in the Eldoret-Kapsabet road.
