A VISIT from the first responders to his car crash buoyed Rosewood’s Dave Pahlke.

“The team from the Rosewood Fire station were here,” Dave said, as he spoke of how knowing the people who were first on the scene of his accident had “helped enormously”.

“They were wonderful and now they’ve called in to see how I am going.

“How wonderful is that?”

Dave says he continues to be overwhelmed and heartened by the flow of messages of support and encouragement while he undergoes the long rehabilitation phase of his recovery.

While he was initially treated in the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, he has now been transferred to the Ipswich General Hospital.

Almost four weeks ago, he was on his way to take “the love of his life”, Carol Moore, out for dinner on Friday, July 26, when he was involved in a two car collision at the intersection of the Thagoona Haigslea Road and the Karrabin Rosewood Road at Thagoona.

The Mini Cooper Dave was driving, spun out of control before the driver’s side crashed into a ‘giveway’ sign.

“His serious injuries were all along his right side,” Carol told the Moreton Border News in the week following the accident.

“He had a large head laceration, a broken right wrist, five broken bones in his right foot, a shattered femur that left an open wound and various other injuries.”

Dave recently saw a photograph of his Mini Cooper after the collision.

“I’m lucky to be alive!”