A British couple who survived a head-on car crash while on holiday in Iceland became engaged in their hospital beds after nurses reunited them in intensive care.
Zak Nelson, 28, and Elliot Griffiths, 26 were rescued from their smashed hire car after a horror collision with another vehicle on April 19 in Revykjavik, Iceland.
Nurses wheeled their hospital beds together in the intensive care unit together Elliot popped the question to his partner of one-and-a-half years, Zak.
Zak Nelson, 28, and Elliot Griffiths, 26 were rescued from their smashed hire car after a horror collision with another vehicle on April 19 in Revykjavik, Iceland.
Nurses wheeled their hospital beds together in the intensive care unit together Elliot popped the question to his partner of one-and-a-half years, Zak.
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00:00 Hello everybody, just a crash update. See Elliot is here, he's doing well, he's off the tubes
00:09 and things aren't you? And we thought we'd share some good news because when we were down in ICU
00:16 on Friday and we didn't know if we were gonna alive or not, that's not even how you speak,
00:25 so we didn't know about each other. And then the nurses pushed us together for the brief period of
00:32 time we were in ICU together and you asked me a question didn't you? What did you ask me?
00:37 If you'd marry me.
00:38 He asked me to marry him and I said yes. There in ICU and all the nurses clapped didn't they?
00:46 They did.
00:46 And the worst bit about it is they then wheeled you off to surgery so.
00:50 Yes, so I've got a big line now.
00:53 It was a complete surprise but yeah we just thought we'd share this, there's some good
00:57 news to come out of our trip after all and I've now gone and bought him a ring from Iceland.
01:05 So here it is, Icelandic ring.
01:08 Oh it's got a dragon pattern on it, so he's officially mine.
01:17 Thanks everybody for your support and comments and it's been incredible and hopefully one day
01:24 we'll return once we've recovered and then come and see the rest of your beautiful country.
01:28 Thanks.
01:30 We're going to Iceland!
01:33 My videos are normally happy bus-related crap.
01:44 I'm in Iceland on what was meant to be the last day of a holiday.
01:51 Nice trip, Elliot and I renting a car, driving around the entire country,
01:58 seeing all sorts of things. I don't know if this video is going public or not yet but
02:02 we landed on Friday.
02:11 We saw a few things hide the car, saw the geysers, saw the lava field, got to drive about a bit
02:17 and about 4.15pm driving towards our accommodation for the night on the first night of holiday
02:26 some twonk decided that they were gonna pull out and overtake a van whilst we were driving
02:37 towards them they appeared out of nowhere and smashed into his head on
02:42 but I was doing about 55 miles an hour at the time. Elliot and I are both alive.
02:50 I was discharged two days later on Sunday, it's now Monday and it's meant to be the last day of
03:05 holiday but I'm in the hotel that I was meant to be here with Elliot
03:09 which has made me all emotional because he's not here yet he's still in hospital
03:14 um yet to have surgery. 55 mile an hour head on and not a scratch weird it is weird um
03:24 I do have scratches I'm going to show you so that it's not not a scratch um we are lucky
03:31 I've been told I'm lucky so many times it is a week nearly been a week now and I was discharged
03:37 four days ago so I'm able luckily with nothing broken we're able to to walk about here are
03:43 pictures of the car somehow whilst I was dazed and confused I managed to take a photograph of it
03:48 and then also not all of my belongings were recovered so the car hire company told us we
03:55 could go to the car and retrieve what else was found and this is the picture of the car that I
04:01 was in.