TWIN sisters from Houghton Regis broke the same bone at the same time of day and were even treated by the same medic – exactly one week apart.
Kelsey and Danielle Taylor were both playing near their Frogmore Road house after school when they suffered their injuries.
Goalkeeper Kelsey was playing football at 5.15pm on Thursday, May 17 when she dived to reach a shot – which she saved – before landing awkwardly and breaking a bone in her left forearm.
A week later (May 24), sister Danielle was riding her bicycle, also at 5.15pm, when she misjudged a kerb and fell, breaking the same bone in her left forearm.
Astonished mum Kim Taylor told the Gazette: “I thought she was joking. I told her she could either stay inside and not go back out, or go back out and finish playing.
“She didn’t think she was really hurt – she went back outside to play!”
The 10-year-old Streetfield Middle School pupils were treated at the Luton & Dunstable Hospital, and had their plaster cast applied by the same woman.
Kim said: “The lady couldn’t believe me when I came in with Kelsey.
“I said ‘remember my daughter from last week who asked for a pink plaster? Well this is her twin sister’.
“No one can believe it, it’s even the same bone. I know they say twins are close but this is too close. It’s spooky.”
Some people believe in a supernatural connection between twins, including the ability to feel each other’s pain.
Guy Lyon Playfair’s 2003 book Twin Telepathy details an experiment in which eight-year-old twins were separated by a soundproof wall but their heart rates were affected by the other’s reaction to plunging their hand in a bucket of ice.
Kim said: “When I first heard I was having twins, I read up on all the things they say that twins do – these two just break their bones together!”
Kelsey, who is two minutes older than her sister, said: “I’ve had more people sign my cast than Danielle.”
Danielle said: “No she hasn’t. Anyway I hate this cast because I can’t play water fights!”