ONE day after marrying the love of his life, Howlong labourer Brett Gray watched his new wife and their two daughters narrowly escape death in a horrific car accident.
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Tammy Gray, driving in front of her husband as they returned from their seaside wedding at Pambula on November 21, saw a figure standing in the middle of the road and swerved to miss it.
The car spun out of control and rolled three times into a ditch on the side of the road, less than 15 kilometres outside Wodonga.
Mrs Gray suffered major head injuries and her face was badly bruised.
The car was written off.
Remarkably, Elizabeth, 5, and Abigail, 2, were unharmed but sat stunned in the car as their mum, disorientated and blinded, tried to find her daughters.
While Mr Gray tended to his wife a man and woman stopped on the side of the road and hauled Elizabeth and Abigail from the car.
The mystery couple also drove the Grays’ son Dominic, 8, to Albury Base Hospital when there was no room in the ambulance which rushed Mrs Gray to medical attention.
“They were so helpful and now we just want to say thank you,” Mrs Gray said.
“What they did was so brave; the car was smoking so it could have been about to blow any second but they didn’t think twice, they just went straight in there and pulled the girls out.”
But the Gray family still has a long road to travel.
Mrs Gray will see a neurologist this week to discover the extent of her head injuries which have affected her memory and brought on dizzy spells.
Doctors say Mrs Gray’s bruising, caused by her seatbelt, and black eye, possibly caused by her sunglasses, will take days to heal and her badly damaged legs could take weeks.
The car crash came less than a month after the family moved to Howlong from Young.
“All we want for Christmas is for everyone to be well and to take a rest,” Mr Gray said.
Anyone with information on the Grays’ mystery rescuers can contact The Border Mail.
