Antonio, who beforehand defined he has no reminiscence of the accident, crashed and was trapped in his automobile. He was freed by crew from Essex County Fireplace and Rescue Service who left him within the care of ambulance employees.

West Ham, in an preliminary announcement in regards to the crash, mentioned their “ideas and prayers” had been with Antonio.

The seriousness of the accident is just not misplaced on the previous Nottingham Forest participant.

He mentioned of the paramedics: “I do not keep in mind their faces in any respect. It is loopy due to how essential you guys had been to me.”

Moon defined how he and Dr Moloney knew who they had been treating: “There was one clue – there was a West Ham shirt within the passenger seat with Antonio on it.”

Antonio requested if he was talking after the incident, and Moloney advised him: “Sure, you had been extremely repetitive, however that occurs when folks bump their head.

“We saved asking about your soccer, who your supervisor was, whether or not you’re having fun with your soccer. From our viewpoint, you had been speaking which was actually reassuring for us.”

The paramedics defined Antonio was found on the again seat of the automobile and “rapidly assessed” to have had fractured his femur.

He was given ache aid, strapped to a board and put in an ambulance to defend him from the chilly and rain.

The crash got here as Storm Darragh battered the UK.

Conferences with paramedics are supplied after life-threatening incidents to assist sufferers rationalise what occurred to them.

Antonio was in a position to ask questions, together with querying whether or not he was taken to hospital by air ambulance.

Moloney clarified: “Every time we are able to, we fly to hospital as a result of it’s faster, however on the day the pilot fairly rightly mentioned no [because of the storm].”

Antonio was pushed to the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel.

In a earlier interview with Morning Stay in March, Antonio mentioned: “I’ve at all times been a fan of sports activities automobiles, however I can not misinform you, sports activities automobiles aren’t my pals. So proper now, I’ve a Mercedes folks provider and my brother is my driver.

“For now, anyway, I am staying far-off from sports activities automobiles.”