Premium Content The moment the car landed, Dinesh Palipana knew he would never walk again. To this day, he says he is unable to find words for the horror he felt at the time. It s like when you get some unexpected terrible news … I felt like I was choking, he says. Dr Palipana suffered a spinal injury and developed quadriplegia when his car aqua planed and flipped near the Brisbane Gateway on January 31, 2010. Despite enduring years of trauma after a life changing car crash, Dinesh Palipana never gave up on his dream and now works in one of the country s busiest emergency departments as the state s first quadriplegic doctor.