By Heather Main It was the split second that changed eight lives forever. In that moment, everyone from the first police officer at the scene, to the friend she was with, her anaesthetist, the van driver – who was not at fault – an eyewitness, her parents and her little brothers had their lives turned upside down. Catapulted 30 metres through the air and landing face down, she clung on to life, but emergency responders feared she would die during the four-minute ambulance trip to hospital. Wheelchair-bound and relying on breathing apparatus after suffering a broken neck, a spinal cord injury, …