Weekly Times | IT’S not quite your typical kangaroo-through-the-windscreen story.
Ouyen United football club speedster William Farrer was following a wayward kick in the first quarter on Saturday when he strayed over the boundary line and went clattering into the windscreen of a spectator’s ute.
Photographer Glenn Milne captured the moment of impact during the Roos’ Round 1 clash with South Mildura in the Sunraysia league.
“He got up over the bull bar and has gone shoulder first into the windscreen” Mr Milne said. “As he was coming off (the bonnet) he’s taken the aerial as well.”
Farrer was even courteous enough to apologise and shake the ute owner’s hand. Although he emerged relatively unscathed, it was a calamitous day for injuries for Ouyen United.
Ruckman Lachlan Medhurst was the most serious concern after he fractured his C7 vertebra and will be in a neck brace for up to eight weeks. Ben Mole broke his shoulder blade, Jason McGlynn and two under-16s players broke their arms, and midfielder Dean Staunton injured his knee. To cap it all, the Kangas went down by 36 points.