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BY JANE SIMS

LONDON, Ont. — Eric Allensen hiked up his shirt to show the wide scar across his belly.

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“I was cut open for four days to stitch up my bowels and what else. I had a hernia from the seat-belt ripping the muscles from my pelvis. I’ve got two screws in there,” he said on the front steps of the London courthouse.

The 26-year-old has a scar on his forehead near his eye. Another on his cheek. All of the injuries are from the horrific crash with impaired driver Scott Altiman, 33, at Dundas St. and Highbury Ave. 14 months ago.

Altiman pleaded guilty in June to two counts of impaired ­driving causing death, two counts of impaired driving causing ­bodily harm, two counts of criminal negligence causing death and two counts of criminal negligence causing bodily harm.

Beyond the physical scars, Allensen lost his cousin, Cody Andrews, 23, and his friend, Jerry Pitre, 46, who were in the back seat when Altiman’s car hit them ­broadside at 187 km/h and sliced the car in half.