If the object hit only 1 cm to one side the patient would have become a quadriplegic.
Shopper and witness Tianna Doan told the newspaper the employee was a cashier who was hit with the object and had a head injury.
Pistorius crossed paths with authorities in February 2009 when the sprinter said he was nearly killed when the speedboat he was driving hit a submerged object.
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Six years later DeGeorge and a business associate, Paul Ebeling, were aboard a 57-foot racing vessel off the coast of Genoa, Italy one dark night when the boat hit a submerged object and sank.
After the match it emerged that a steward needed hospital treatment after being hit by a flying object following Adebayor's celebrations.
The court also heard from Home Office pathologist Derek James who told the court that Ms Dries-Jenkins had been hit with a blunt object to the head about ten times and possibly more.
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Pathologist Dr Simon Poole told the court Miss McCluskie died from being hit over the head with an object such as a bat.
The 25-year-old Brighton woman, who had arranged to meet a friend on the seafront, was hit in the face with an object as she tried to pass the crowds.
Dr Chatterjee therefore suggests that an object 40km in diameter hit the Earth off the coast of India and forced vast quantities of lava out of the Deccan Traps.
While 1km-size and bigger asteroids are thought to hit only once every 500, 000 years, on average, rocks 50-100 metres across, like the Tunguska object, are thought to hit the planet once every thousand years.
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Sergeant MARIA(ph): We got the security team that - they do their job and they clear the area, but there always, you know, there might be that one object on the road that they just bypass and miss, and we might be the one that hit it.
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