An emotional Kim Hagdorn has returned to the 6PR studios to discuss his serious car accident in Roleystone in April 2020, when his car was hit by an oncoming vehicle head on in the hills, killing him almost for good.

A first responder Jim, a deep sea diver and instructor, gave Hagdorn CPR at the scene, while Jim's wife, an anesthetist, was on the phone to her husband, directing him what to do until ambulances arrived.

"There's so many people you'd like to thank ... but I wouldn't have survived had he not been there," the football expert and former 6PR sports broadcaster told Millsy at Midday host Steve Mills on Tuesday.

"Between the two of them they kept me going ... but I haven't wanted to know what happened."

Hagdorn flatlined three times but insists there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

"I experienced death... there's nothing out there, you just don't know that you're gone," he said.

'The light came I reckon four or five days later you know when your family, my wife Helen was there, and she's been amazing since.. you know, your kids, your son, your daughter. Great friends, there's been people by your bedside that just made sure they were there, even though I didn't want people to come in but some of them just said 'look I have to see you, you know, so'." 

"But I don't remember the first four or five days at all, you know I had a bad concussion as well, a massive, a really big whopping carton on the head too."

The hospital experience was another eye-opener for the dogged journalist, who lost 20kg while recovering over 11 weeks in Royal Perth Hospital.

"Some of the traumatic circumstances I had with the heart troubles and the lungs, the clotting, and just a team of people just turn up with machines and buttons and buzzers ringing, there'd be a dozen or 15 people in your room, every one of them with some degree of expertise that they had to handle to keep this patient alive."

An emotional Kim Hagdorn has returned to the 6PR studios to discuss his serious car accident in Roleystone in April 2020, when his car was hit by an oncoming vehicle head on in the hills, killing him almost for good.
A first responder Jim, a deep sea diver and instructor, gave Hagdorn CPR at the scene, while Jim's wife, an anesthetist, was on the phone to her husband, directing him what to do until ambulances arrived.
"There's so many people you'd like to thank ... but I wouldn't have survived had he not been there," the football expert and former 6PR sports broadcaster told Millsy at Midday host Steve Mills on Tuesday.
"Between the two of them they kept me going ... but I haven't wanted to know what happened."
Hagdorn flatlined three times but insists there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
"I experienced death... there's nothing out there, you just don't know that you're gone," he said.
'The light came I reckon four or five days later you know when your family, my wife Helen was there, and she's been amazing since.. you know, your kids, your son, your daughter. Great friends, there's been people by your bedside that just made sure they were there, even though I didn't want people to come in but some of them just said 'look I have to see you, you know, so'." 
"But I don't remember the first four or five days at all, you know I had a bad concussion as well, a massive, a really big whopping carton on the head too."
The hospital experience was another eye-opener for the dogged journalist, who lost 20kg while recovering over 11 weeks in Royal Perth Hospital.
"Some of the traumatic circumstances I had with the heart troubles and the lungs, the clotting, and just a team of people just turn up with machines and buttons and buzzers ringing, there'd be a dozen or 15 people in your room, every one of them with some degree of expertise that they had to handle to keep this patient alive."

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