In a terrible example of 'salt-in-the-wound', a man managed to castrate himself after crashing his car.
Nicholas St Clair, 27, from west Hull discovered the injury when he retracted a tree branch from his groin to find his testicles hanging from it.
St Clair had been driving at almost twice the speed limit - 57mph - with passengers when he crashed his Volkswagen Golf GTi into a Ford Mondeo in South Ferriby.
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St Clair hit another Seat Ibiza before smashing into a lamppost which turned the Golf completely over.
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The branch impaled the windscreen and then his groin.
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St Clair told officers: "I pulled it out and my testicles fell out."
He passed out and was taken to hospital.
"You were driving like a lunatic," Judge Paul Watson QC told him, after sentencing him to eight months in prison.
"You were driving at an excessively fast speed on country roads and driving on the wrong side of the road.
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"It is not only merciful, it is miraculous that no one was fatally injured. I have seen much less serious collisions that have resulted in tragic fatalities."
St Clair is unable to have children or a proper sexual relationship.
Topics: Car Crash