A 21-year-old woman was saved by her skin-tight red dress after the taxi she was travelling in crashed, doctors say.
Zoe Turner spent £35 on the dress from retailer Missguided and it turned out it would be the best purchase of her life.
According to The Telegraph, Turner was travelling with a group of friends to a Christmas party in Leeds when the taxi was hit by a cement mixer.
The dress Turner wore was so tight it acted like an old-fashioned corset and prevented her bones from perforating her organs, which could have been fatal.
"I was in unimaginable pain. My body was aching and I just remember thinking 'I have to get my belt off,'" Zoe told The Telegraph.
"The pain and restriction my dress was causing was unbearable and I stumbled out of the car."
"The doctors told me that if I hadn't worn such a tight dress which held in place my bones as the car impacted, I would most definitely have punctured vital organs as my bones went out of place."
As the taxi crashed into the truck, the driver's head went through the front window and her three friends were left unconscious.
Turner was rushed to hospital with multiple injuries, including a fractured pelvis, fractured vertebra and broken sternum.
"I thought everyone else was dead," said Turner.
"I was in so much shock I didn't realise how serious my injuries were."
Her friends survived with broken arms, eye sockets and pelvis, and the driver suffered a broken neck.
"I'm lucky to be alive, the thought of not having worn that dress makes me shudder," Zoe told The Telegraph.
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