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Minutes after Ben Turner was hit by a tram, all indications were that he had died.

Ambulance officers who arrived at the scene that Friday night, in South Melbourne, in 2005, found that the 29-year-old’s heart had stopped and he wasn’t breathing.

Paramedic Mick Stephenson says Turner was lying face-down between the tram tracks in Kings Way, his face smashed, and with one leg flung over his head.

Stephenson says Turner’s chances of successful resuscitation were next to none.

“If your heart stops and you stop…

Read the full article at SMH.COM.AU