{"id":10787,"date":"2025-11-06T17:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=10787"},"modified":"2025-11-06T17:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:35:07","slug":"student-left-paralyzed-after-breaking-her-neck-during-skydive-jump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=10787","title":{"rendered":"Student Left Paralyzed After Breaking Her Neck during Skydive Jump"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<div class=\"post-left\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\"><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"content-area entry-block\">\n<div class=\"entry-content \">\n<div id=\"fb-root\" class=\" fb_reset\">\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem;\">A student who was left paralyzed after breaking her neck at a university parachute jump is suing for a whopping $15 million, adding that medics should not have given her a clearance of being fit because she was depressed.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Miriam Barker was in her third year at Southampton University, where she studied history and philosophy, when a friend persuaded her to join the Skydiving Society.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"lazy lazy-hidden img-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/static.smalljoys.me\/2025\/11\/10257809_103609039-15260327-Picture_shows_members_of_the_University_of_Southampton_Skydiving-m-19_1762339670615_1762417310.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"476\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.smalljoys.me\/2025\/11\/10257809_103609039-15260327-Picture_shows_members_of_the_University_of_Southampton_Skydiving-m-19_1762339670615_1762417310.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>She tackled her first jump, and while her parachute did end up opening correctly, she landed heavily, flipping upside down and fracturing her neck and back on the impact.<\/p>\n<p>The accident took place at Dunkeswell Airfield in Devon, rendering her tetraplegic due to serious damage caused to her spine. She\u2019s now being forced to use a wheelchair and claims her life has come to a complete standstill. She\u2019s now seeking serious compensation over the long-term effects of this accident on her health.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"lazy lazy-hidden img-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/static.smalljoys.me\/2025\/11\/10257809_103609041-15260327-Picture_shows_members_of_the_University_of_Southampton_Skydiving-m-20_1762339683330_1762417312.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"536\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.smalljoys.me\/2025\/11\/10257809_103609041-15260327-Picture_shows_members_of_the_University_of_Southampton_Skydiving-m-20_1762339683330_1762417312.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>She has rolled out legal action against all jump organizers, Skydive Buzz, and a university GP, where she claims that she was wrongly signed off as medically fit to skydive when that was not the case.<\/p>\n<p>Both parties are denying blame for the tragedy and are now fighting the case in the High Court of London. Documents stated how Ms Barker was seeing a counsellor and was just about to begin a course of cognitive behavioral therapy when she opted to join the university\u2019s skydiving society.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A student who was left paralyzed after breaking her neck at a university parachute jump is suing for a whopping $15 million, adding that medics should not have given her a clearance of being fit because she was depressed. Miriam Barker was in her third year at Southampton University, where she studied history and philosophy,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=10787\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Student Left Paralyzed After Breaking Her Neck during Skydive Jump&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10789,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10787\/revisions\/10789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}