Hello and welcome to my fundraising page.

My name is Rene Turanek, I'm 42 yo from Slovakia. 

Like many others from around Europe and not only, I've decided to move here in Netherlands and find a job as a truck driver and somehow improve a bit the income and have a safe and modern environment to work and live.

Everything went well, I found an agency called 24/7 in DenBosch, and those guys are brilliant, especially Myrthe and Hayat, providing great comfortable accommodation near my job, always helping and advising and finally, the agency found me a job as a Drinks delivery truck driver for Nabuurs/Bavaria /Swinkels in Hedel and Lishout.

Nabuurs, the distribution company also a great company with brand new well maintained trucks, behind with a team of professionals planners and management, trained me and helped me integrate so I can complete their deliveries with quality professional service and efficiency. 

Unfortunately on a Monday 2nd of September 2024, while driving near Zwolle, a Tesla driven by a local citizen, dangerously, did an illegal move, a high speed overtake and drove straight under my truck with the car immediately on fire and both occupants deadin collision / fire ( photos attached ) and both the car and the truck were destroyed and I was caught for 2 hours in the cabin and after that I ended up for 2 days in a coma with my left leg broken in a very bad way that needed multiple surgeries and bones removed and replaced by metal implants. Also my left hand in similar situation together with some ribs broken and all of this after I had 3 of my spine vertebrae replaced by metal parts in another accident few years back in UK.

Unfortunately I have to go again through surgeries, rehabilitation and recovery but I'm happy that I'm alive and God has given me another chance to open my eyes and fight with this until the day that I'll be able to walk and work again and of course the fight will continue but definitely with different eyes, after seeing for 2 days in coma angels, devils, dead people, souls, heaven and hell, pain and when finally I've opened my eyes after 2 days I've received the question: "Do you know where you are?" from the most beautiful nurse I've ever seen in my life at Zwolle ISALA Hospital. 

My answer was: I'm in heaven... ✨️ 😌 

Since that day, 4th of September, I'm in the hospital going through major surgeries to rebuild my leg and hand and after almost 4 weeks, the doctor, said that I can go home but where...???

I'm not working for the agency so no accommodation, the medical leave payment will not cover the rent for a ground floor house/flat and expenses with recovery / rehabilitation, I can't work yet, my family is in Slovakia, my mother is over 80 yo and diagnosed in the hospital with cancer, my father is very old and poor so can't help in his physical condition. 

I'm now stuck in a situation alone without family and very few friends who are trying to do as much as possible but I've decided to start a Fundraising Campaign to go at least through the next 3 months and hopefully after that I'll be able to stand up on my feet, get back to work according to my medical situation and slowly get back to normal even stronger, way more determined to make sure that the rest of my life I will appreciate that God has a different plan for me , a better plan that I have to help also people in needs in hospital in the same situation as me or some worse than me, but definitely I will share my life experience and give them the hope and the hand that they need in those hard times that life took them through. 

Please donate as little as you can and I'll make sure that for the rest of my life I'll pay back many times your effort to those in need and if we all do this...finally this will be a better world that God expects us to maintain. 

God bless you all, please drive safely, forgive all those who are unfair with you in life and at work and pray every day to God that you will be protected, guided and taken only through the right path...