An Australian woman suffered a fractured skull after being hit in the head by a golf ball through the open window of her taxi, public broadcaster ABC reported Friday.
The incident happened near Sanctuary Lakes Resort’s golf course on Feb. 27 at 2 a.m. as Melbourne woman Natasha Cossell, 38, traveled home from a night out.
The golf ball struck her with such force that it fractured her skull and Cossell spent 11 days in hospital recovering from brain surgery.
She had to have a plate inserted into her skull, the Herald Sun reported.
"It hit me in the side of the head and fractured my skull, pushing my skull against my brain. Very serious," she told ABC Radio.
"And the taxi driver picked up the ball off the floor of the cab and gave it to me."
Cossell told ABC Radio she thought it was probably just kids playing around on the golf course at night.
"I just want them to know what they've done, so they understand the impact on me and family," she said.
"So that they perhaps learn something from it and not to do something so stupid to someone else."
Police have appealed for witnesses to the incident.
