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Alijah Arenas opens up about his car accident that left him in a medically induced coma.
On Tuesday, June 24, the 18-year-old son gave the former NBA star Gilbert Arena’s details about the April car accident. Alijah spoke in a new interview and said he was on his way home after a workout during the early hours of April 24, when his cyber truck lost control.
“I go on my way to my house, the car didn’t really record that I was there,” he said Per Uscfootball.com. “So even to this day, the BiPppen still says that I’m in the gym.”
He continued to add that he noticed things that the car’s keypad is lit and “the lights light up without even doing anything.”
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At a traffic light, he realized that the wheel did not move as it should be. Eventually, the USC basketball basketball for men’s basketball tried to turn to a side road.
“I changed lanes without meaning, and I knew something was wrong,” he said. “And the next thing you know, I can’t get back to the left lane.”
He added, “So then a car comes to me, and I think I will only pull over. So I speed up to pull over to the right in an area because there are cars parked on the street I am on the right. But when I speed up to turn, I can not stop. The wheel did not answer me as if I was not in the car.”
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Alijah recalled to hit a curb and passed for three minutes. He thought he was home; But after hearing “cracking sound”, he discovered that he was in his car, which was burning.
“I went into panic, instinctively, controlled my surroundings,” he said. “I couldn’t see outside the car because of all the fog.”
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Alijah said he went out several times when he tried to get out of the car before two good Samaritans helped him out of the vehicle through a window.
The teenager said he did not blame the car that did not work for the incident and added that his first thought after waking up in the hospital was if he had met someone.
“Honestly, I take full responsibility for the crash, whether it was me, another car, an error,” he said. “I don’t want to put anyone else in this situation, the people who made the car, something similar. I take full responsibility.”
Alija got out of the medically induced coma In the aftermath of the crash, but remained intubated at that time.
Now that he has recovered himself, the basketball player to the Trojans earlier this month.
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