That’s bad lock! Car keys end up lodged in Canadian woman’s FACE after a friend tossed them to her

A Canadian woman was left with her car keys stuck in her face after a friend threw them at her in a “freak accident”.

Renée Lariviere, 24, was about to leave her apartment complex in the northern Canadian city of Sudbury to go to McDonald’s when one of her friends threw her car keys.

But when Renée grabbed the car key, she somehow stabbed herself in the face, the triangular edge piercing her flesh and burying an inch and a half deep into her nasal cavity.

The gruesome photos show the metal from the key disappearing into Renée’s cheek, leaving the handle sticking out awkwardly while an X-ray shows it buried deep beneath her eyeball.

The gruesome photos show the metal from the key disappearing into Renée’s cheek, leaving the handle sticking out awkwardly while an X-ray shows it buried deep beneath her eyeball.

Renée Lariviere, 24, was about to leave her apartment complex in the northern Canadian city of Sudbury to go to McDonald’s when one of her friends threw her car keys.

Renée said she didn’t think the key had pierced her face to begin with, as the adrenaline kept her from feeling pain.

However, after looking in the mirror and seeing the key lodged in her cheek, Renée’s first fear was blindness.

The panicked group of friends called the emergency services and minutes later an ambulance arrived to take Renée to the Hospital Ciencias de la Salud Norte.

Renée, who works for a landscaping company, said the doctors and nurses were “shocked” by the “fortuitous accident” and are now using photos of her as an example to show that “anything can happen”.

She said: ‘I felt a pressure, but I felt like I had just been hit [with the keys] in the face, as if I had missed my catch.

“My friend looked at me and said, ‘Oh my God, don’t move,’ and he started to panic.

An X-ray showed how the key sank an inch and a half deep into his nasal cavity.

“I guess the adrenaline is pumping, so you don’t feel it right away. I didn’t really believe him, so I walked to the bathroom and looked in the mirror.

‘I was scared. My concern was my eye.

Renée added: ‘I couldn’t care less about a scar. Scars, if you take care of them properly, will disappear. That was not my concern. My concern was, ‘Am I going to be able to see?’

“It felt like the pressure was there constantly, like severe pressure, like something heavy was on top of me. [my] face.

‘The doctors there were amazed. There were doctors who came from different departments to see, because they couldn’t believe it.

‘I had one of them come over and ask to take pictures so he could show them to his students. He was an emergency room doctor, so he was trying to show [them] that anything could happen.

Renée was immediately seen by medical professionals when she arrived at the hospital, who gave her a CT scan and called in a plastic surgeon to remove the key and stitch up the wound.

Renée said that the surgeon confirmed that the key had been buried inside their nasal cavities.

Since then, he has made a full recovery with no complications and no scars.

Renée was immediately seen by medical professionals when she arrived at the hospital, who gave her a CT scan and called in a plastic surgeon to remove the key and stitch up the wound. Since then, she has made a full recovery with no complications and no scars.

Now, Renée believes that people should be more careful in their everyday lives, as she admits that that incident was a ‘near accident’.

Renée said, “Looking at it now, I think there’s no way that’s going to happen.”

‘What are the chances of that happening, or [it’s] I guess it was just sheer luck, because there is a bit of luck that nothing bad actually happened.

It was about to fail. If she had hit somewhere else, she could have caused quite a bit of damage.

‘At no time did I lose my sight, but I was afraid of where they were. [would] pull it out, or that if I moved a certain way I would touch something. But that didn’t happen luckily.

“It was a relief as soon as they got the CT scan results back and said everything was fine.

‘I definitely think people should be more careful. Fluke accidents happen all the time, and I don’t think we realize that.

“We are so busy living our daily lives that we don’t realize how many things can happen every day and how much they can hurt us.”