A woman has shared her harrowing experience of losing an eyeball due to wearing the wrong type of sunglasses while driving. Hannah Oliver, a TikTok user, posted a video on the platform detailing the incident. "I lost my eye due to my sunglasses shattering and let me just tell you, this is something that you probably do all the time," she revealed.
In the viral video, which has garnered over 1.8 million views, she recounts driving in sunny weather with her "favourite designer sunglasses" on. She then issued a warning, saying: "But the issue is, the majority of the sunglasses that you are probably wearing are made out of straight plastic lenses.
And basically what that means is on any impact they will shatter." Recounting the specifics of the accident, she continued: "So I was driving along and this guy pulled out in front of me, I didn't react fast enough, and when I did, I slammed on the brakes and hit him from behind..
. I was only going 25 miles per hour." "When it happened, my airbag came out and it hit my sunglasses perfectly.
The lens shattered into pieces and all those pieces went straight into my eye." "My eye was shredded, my optic nerve was gone, my retina was detached, my eye had completely deflated. My top eyelid was hanging over, my bottom eyelid as you can see is really non-existent.
" Hannah opened up and revealed that the accident inspired her own line of protective sunglasses, reports Wales Online . "I had the hardest time after the accident figuring out what is.