L.A. dad saves toddler in crash but loses his foot. 'There's no room for feeling bad' - BERITAJA

Jordan Stannard whitethorn not understand really he made it done the clang that claimed his near foot, but there’s 1 point of which he is certain.

As an progressive dada of 2 daughters — a toddler and a newborn — there’s nary clip for negativity.

“I person a work to my daughters to beryllium the champion dada that I could be. I ne'er want them to opportunity ‘Dad sewage successful an mishap and he was ne'er the same. Dad sewage wounded and he’s been angry ever since,’” he said. “There’s nary room for emotion bad for myself aliases being angry.”

Two weeks ago, Stannard’s life changed successful an instant. He was loading his 2-year-old daughter, Sadie, into the family’s Tesla aft a play day and travel to the market shop successful Venice. His woman was connected the different broadside of the car preparing to put the couple’s newborn, Shae, inside.

That’s erstwhile Stannard heard the first crash.

A GMC motortruck slammed into a Mercedes SUV that was waiting for a parking spot on Venice Boulevard and past came barreling toward Stannard and Sadie.

“You could benignant of consciousness it vibrate erstwhile it’s that adjacent to you,” the Los Angeles autochthonal said of the impact. “When that happened, I conscionable thought, ‘Get Sadie successful the car, conscionable get her successful the car.’ I specifically retrieve what it looked for illustration — the motortruck coming astatine me. I blinked, and past I felt the effect of the motortruck hitting me.”

Stannard remembers lying connected the pavement and looking up astatine the bluish sky, not yet emotion immoderate pain, and realizing that he’d really been hit. His near ft was successful bad shape, but he was live and his daughter, who he was capable to get into the car earlier the impact, was uninjured. The panicked screams of his woman filled his ears.

That’s erstwhile the first successful a bid of helpers rushed to his aid. He credits the caregiver and the off-duty lifeguard who applied a makeshift tourniquet to his limb and the firefighter who talked him done his symptom connected the measurement to the infirmary pinch helping to prevention his life.

Doctors yet had to amputate his near ft and ankle. Stannard is now astatine a rehab installation moving connected his mobility and continuing to heal truthful he could beryllium fitted for a prosthetic successful the adjacent fewer months, he said.

Jordan Stannard mislaid his near ft and ankle aft being deed by a motortruck successful Venice.

(Courtesy of Jordan Stannard)

A GoFundMe set up to raise money for Stannard’s aesculapian expenses had netted much than $100,000 arsenic of Monday night.

Since the crash, he said, his infirmary room has been filled pinch group — and elephantine bouquets of flowers — supporting him successful his recovery. He moreover transformed his infirmary room into a World Cup viewing abstraction during a caller USA lucifer for a group of friends acknowledgment to a projector from his woman and the imaginative usage of aesculapian supplies for a makeshift screen.

The irony that he’s uncovering immoderate joyousness watching athletes kicking a shot pinch 2 feet isn’t mislaid connected him, he said, adding, “You person to find a measurement to laugh.”

“This outpouring of support has been perfectly the about beautiful point about this full situation,” he said. “It’s genuinely treatment erstwhile group travel and show you emotion for illustration that. It’s made maine consciousness better.”

The jock who enjoys biking pinch friends, taking his daughters to the beach, doing cross-fit and moving marathons is wished not to fto his wounded slow him down. His eventual extremity is to tally the L.A. Marathon adjacent year.

But first, he conscionable wants to get location to his woman and daughters.

“I person truthful overmuch to look guardant to.”