The Crash: Sally Wenley
In 1987, Sally Wenley was a driven, fun-loving and at times naughty high school sports prefect. After a fatal bus trip she became a paraplegic, her sporting dreams in tatters.
Decades later, Sally looks squarely at the accident and her risk-taking younger self who used alcohol and arrogance to mask physical pain and trauma. Now an award-winning radio reporter, Sally chats with Charlotte Glennie about her revealing and at times hilarious memoir.
Sally talks to Nine To Noon here.
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Charlotte Glennie
Charlotte Glennie is an award-winning former broadcast journalist who has reported for top-tier news organisations in Ne
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