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An Australian teenager was left with a screw lodged in her cheek after a drive-by blow dart attack.
Candi Hawtin, 15, from the NSW Hunter region, narrowly avoided losing her eye after she was shot in the face with a homemade dart.
The teenager and her four friends were walking to McDonald's when a white, dual cab Toyota Hilux with green P-plates slowed down and approached them.
"I just thought someone had flicked me with a branch in the side of the face," Candi told Nine News.
"I was like 'what is it?' and my friend Jayde said 'there's a screw sticking out of your face' and I just started freaking out."
Candi's best friend Jayde Taylor who was walking alongside her said, "The window was down and the guy was looking at me and then he pulled the dart blower out and he just shot it at us."
The teenager called herself an ambulance before calling her parents who raced to the scene.
Her father Fred Hawtin said, “Words cannot express how I feel about her and for someone to do that to my flesh and blood… instant rage.
"I was on a war path last night."
Candi was sent to John Hunter Hospital where she spoke to 9news about how she had to spend a sleepless night with the screw still in her face, as she waited for a plastic surgeon to carefully remove it the next morning in surgery.
"I could see it out of the corner of my eye, stuck in my cheek," she said.
"It was two centimetres away from my eye and half a millimetre away from the bone, artery and nerve in my cheek.
"If it hit that I could have lost the feeling in half my face and bled to death in eight minutes. I'm pretty lucky!"
A 17-year-old male attended Cessnock Police Station and was arrested for further questioning.
No charges have been laid.
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