Toddler is left blind in one eye after drone propeller sliced his eyeball in half


Oscar Webb, 18 months, was in the garden when his eyeball was sliced by the propeller. It was being flown by family friend Simon Evans who had experience of flying the remote-controlled device.
Doctors desperately tried to save Oscar's eye but were left with no option but to remove it following the accident seven weeks ago.

His family appeared on last night's episode of Watchdog to warn about the dangers of the devices - which are often marketed as toys.
Oscar's mother, Amy Roberts, said she was in the ambulance taking Oscar to hospital in Birmingham when he opened his eye, revealing the horrific damage.

                                   
'What I saw, I can still see it now...it was the bottom half of his eye and it's the worst thing I've ever seen,' she said.
'I just hoped and prayed all the way there that what I saw wasn't true and wasn't real.

'I can't really even remember what I was thinking at the time. I just remember waiting for someone to come and say it was OK.
'They (the doctors) did say that it was one of the worst eye incidents they'd seen.
'It was hard, I cried that much that even the consultant, it brought tears to her face.'
Surgeons performed several emergency operations to try and save Oscar's eye but the damage was too catastrophic.

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