A teenager has defied the odds by surviving a horrifying forklift truck accident that left him needing urgent surgery to amputate the bottom half of his body.

Loren Schauers, 19, was driving the industrial truck across a bridge when he veered off, plummeted 50ft and found himself pinned to the ground beneath the massive vehicle.

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Being half alive is better than being half dead

He remained totally conscious the entire time - and look down to see his right arm had exploded and everything below his hips was completely squashed.

The young labourer made the brave decision to let medics perform hemicorperectomy surgery - where everything below his waist was amputated - to save his life.

Doctors told his devastated girlfriend Sabia Reiche, now 21, he wouldn't survive, and she said goodbye to him six times, fearing he wouldn't live another day.

His girlfriend stood by him even when she was told it is impossible to save him from the horor

Loren Schauers working before the accident

The pair had only been together for 18 months when the accident happened but said the turmoil brought them closer together, and they got engaged this year.

Loren, from Great Falls, Montana, said in a YouTube video: 'I was conscious throughout everything so I actually watched as the forklift fell on top of me and crushed my body.

'Every medical professional I come across is pretty amazed by everything, especially with the story that comes along with my injuries.

'It wasn't a hard choice to have half of my body amputated - it was basically a choice of living or dying.

'With Sabia assuring to stay by my side no matter what and all my immediate family being around me, it really wasn't a hard choice for me!'

Loren was working as a labourer on a construction site during a bridge rehabilitation job in September 2019.

Schauers is pictured attending physiotherapy after the operation in Montana

Schauers is pictured with his girlfriend after his operation

Can never be a Nigerian girl

COMRADES, this is so pathetic, may we not suffer the same fate as this man, abeg oo, may God continue to protect us

If this incident had happened in Nigeria the victim could have been buried since

Melagros:
COMRADES, this is so pathetic, may we not suffer the same fate as this man, abeg oo, may God continue to protect us

If this incident had happened in Nigeria the victim could have been buried since

You are just right! May God dey protect as we dey hustle for our daily bread.

Coolestguy2023:
Can never be a Nigerian girl

Don't let Nigerian babes come for you oo

..
Things dey happen for this life o

He never have sex again

Where's his dick?

How does he pass waste?
Big kudos to his girlfriend turned wife for sticking with him all through the ordeal. Too bad they'll never have biological kids

God have mercy on your children as we go out daily in search of our daily bread

Which kin wahala be dis

slipperyanus07:
He never have sex again

We didn't come to this world to have only sex

By all means a living dog is better than a dead lion.
He has life therefore he has hope

Coolestguy2023:
Can never be a Nigerian girl

You fit stay??

You go tell your daughter or sister to stay?

Coolestguy2023:
Can never be a Nigerian girl

Lifestyle, philosophy and psychology is different here.
Survival and material things is a big deal for us...
We are mostly hustlers living from hand to mouth, unlike with them, food and basic amenities is not really a problem.

On the contrary, if na your sister or daughter, you go like make she stay?

Omo... Doctors u have to help me out here.. How dis guy go dey urinate and defecate....

na suffer bdis oh... Stop saying he should have jst died... Dying no easy walahi, so if u dey him shoes wetin u go do?

Wahala plenty for this life o

I respect people that cling to life against all odds.

Isn't death better than living like this?

Ehhhh. God is great!
Half body is indeed better than being dead.

Goddess Mode
But I m looking down below, have they scrapped his totoyos too?
How ll he be able to v sex?

What is the essence of living

Life isn't measured by riches, beauty or all of those stuffs. It's all about being alive. Appreciate life

Melagros:
COMRADES, this is so pathetic, may we not suffer the same fate as this man, abeg oo, may God continue to protect us

If this incident had happened in Nigeria the victim could have been buried since

I would rather be happily dead actually than to live like this.
For what exactly?

Half alive is already half dead.
Half past 7 is already half to eight

Nwodosis:
Being half alive is better than being half dead

Incredible will to live