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Victim of cruel smash and grab
By SAMANTHA WILLIAMS
June 25, 2005
TRAPPED in her smashed car, paralysed with fear, Karen Roach watched helpless as the unthinkable happened.
Mrs Roach saw a woman approach her car and thought a good Samaritan had come to help. She couldn't have been more wrong.
Instead the woman began stealing her belongings.
"It was horrendous - I didn't know if my body was in one piece," Mrs Roach said.
"All I could do was lie there and watch this woman discard the credit cards she didn't want and then walk away.
"I tried to tell someone but there were a lot of people around on mobiles and either they didn't hear me or the words just didn't come out.
"It was crazy ... people were calming me down while others were poking their head in for a look as though I was an attraction at the circus."
Mrs Roach was travelling on the Pacific Highway near Ourimbah on the Central Coast on June 11 when her Falcon XR6 began to fishtail.
The car flipped, tossing Mrs Roach like a rag doll and leaving her with severe bruising to her chest and legs.
She has a bruise on her chest the size of a soccer ball where the airbag and seatbelt crushed against her body.
Mrs Roach was returning to her Ingleburn home after visiting her sister in Tamworth.
"I wasn't speeding, I was just about to switch on the cruise control when the car began to fishtail," the 44-year-old said.
The woman who robbed her took two silver card holders given to Mrs Roach by her husband John.
Mrs Roach described the woman as having a medium build with brown hair and blonde streaks.
"I don't remember much, but I kept thinking she had a bad hairdo," Mrs Roach said.
"[When she started going through my purse] I thought maybe she was looking for identification - then she started throwing away the cards she didn't want."
Mrs Roach could not believe there were people who would do such a thing.
"Who on earth would go through people's things ... I could have been dead," she said.
In a letter to The Saturday Daily Telegraph last week, Mrs Roach's mother, Margaret Smith from Tenterfield, said she wanted to thank the people who stopped to help her daughter.
"With the exception of the young woman who stole her personal effects," Mrs Smith said. "What is being done to bring these ghouls to justice?"
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