'I had to pretend I was okay': Wife of Carlow motorcycle crash victim speaks out on husband's road to recovery

The motorcyclist injured in the crash involving a stolen truck is facing an uncertain road to recovery, while missing out on his baby’s milestones.

Jackson Singh was seriously injured before 8am on July 8th, when Gardaí were following a Ford Ranger that was stolen in Dublin hours earlier.

The truck mounted the pavement at a red light in Graiguecullen before squashing Jackson and driving on.

His wife, Hari Priya, spoke to RTÉ Prime Time recently, sharing the details of how bad her husband’s injuries actually were and are.

Jackson suffered from a brain bleed, lacerations on his liver, facial fractures, and multiple broken bones, as well as a loss of taste, smell, and partial loss of sight.

Hari recalled the day, saying it started like normal.

Her husband left the house around 7:45am for his job in Dublin.

When Gardaí called to her door at around 8:05am, Hari did not expect to hear her husband had been in an accident.

“I know he’s a really careful driver and it was really a shock when the Garda was home and informed me that Jackson had an accident,” she said.

She originally thought it was a small accident, but when she visited Jackson in St. Luke’s Hospital, she realised just how life-threatening the incident was.

“I don’t want to even think of those moments again. For me to see him like that in the hospital bed... He was literally lifeless,” she recalled.

His teeth were spaced out because of the pressure of the tyre which ran over him, and Hari remembers holding cotton to his ears while blood was pouring out of them.

Jackson was brought to Tallaght Hospital for pelvis surgery, and then moved to Cork for more treatments.

“The worst of all, I had to pretend I was okay because his willpower comes from me,” she said,

The couple are parents to a nine-month-old baby girl called Elora, who was baptised just three days before the incident.

Hari’s mother came over for the baptism a week earlier and has been helping out while Jackson recovers.

However, Jackson has been worrying about his baby and his wife, and is missing many major milestones while in hospital.

Elora has started crawling and is even attempting to stand up, but without her father present.

“It is just a blessing that he is alive,” Hari said.

At the moment, he is still in a lot of pain; his jaws don’t meet, and his nose is off-centre.

Addressing the fact that some of the teenagers who injured her husband were the ones who were killed in the M9 collision, Hari said she didn’t want to get too much into it.

She did say that following her husband’s incident, she thought, “They are teenagers. We all do things when we are immature.”

Hari believed that following that, they would learn from it and never do something similar again, but she was wrong.

For now, Hari is focused on getting her husband back to full health, but the road to recovery is uncertain.

“I genuinely don’t know when I am gonna take him back home. I don’t know what’s going to happen to us,” she said.

“I don’t know when he can sit. I don’t know when he can walk. It is just a huge question mark,” she added.

Hari shared that she has always loved Ireland, but she loves it even more now, as the people around her are treating her like family; something she doesn’t have, as her and her husband’s loved ones live back in India.

“Everybody has pitched in. They are helping us out so much,” she said.

She also thanked everyone who has contributed anything to the GoFundMe that has been set up.

Gardaí have confirmed that the five teenagers in the car that day were arrested and questioned, with the investigation now at an advanced stage.

It is said to be finalised soon.

The RTÉ Prime Time episode Hari featured on was aired on the 27th of August 2026.