The 23-year-old was left in a coma with a broken neck, smashed pelvis and brain bleeds. She spent nearly four months in hospital and doctors told her she would not walk again.
But she defied their prediction and is back on her feet.
Although she has lost sight in her right eye and hearing in her left ear, Miss Wilson puts her amazing recovery down to her attitude.
"Positive attitude and determination - it will get you everywhere. People shouldn't focus on little things. They should look at the bigger picture," she told the Bay of Plenty Times Weekend.
"It's the only way to be really, you can't change it. I could be all negative and down in the dumps - but what is that going to change about it? Nothing. So be positive and move forward," she said from her father's Otumoetai home.
She thought the last operation she had for Crouzon's Syndrome would be the last she would ever need but "things do get in the way".
Miss Wilson said she could not believe anything was wrong after she woke up from a five-week coma after the car accident.
"But mind you I couldn't walk, move my hand or leg or head. I didn't believe anyone for like a week that anything was wrong.
"I was on so many pain killers I couldn't feel anything."
The first thing Miss Wilson said when she woke up was that she wanted a sausage roll.
"It reminds me of home," she said with a cheeky smile.
She has not fully recovered from her injuries and has to wait to know their full impact. She suffers paralysis on the right side of her body and has two classes each of physio and occupational therapy a week.
"Considering I'm walking - they said I wouldn't be able to but I didn't accept that. So they don't know if it will come right because everything else has exceeded expectations."
Medically she does not need any other operations but she does have the option to have two bolts removed from the top of her spine.
"I don't want to get them taken out. There's a big rod connecting my neck and my skull so they said I can have surgery to get them out but I don't want to go through it again.
"There is only so much someone can bear."
Miss Wilson lives in an apartment with friends in South Yarra, Melbourne, and hopes to get back to her hotel job soon.
Since being back in the Bay she has been able to catch up with much-loved friends and family.
"I didn't realise how much I needed home right now," she said.
Miss Wilson said she also could not believe the support the Tauranga community gave through the Givealittle page used to raise money for her after the accident.
"That is what got me through everything, knowing I had all that support from home."
This trip was also an opportunity to see if she wanted to move back to her birth land.
"I've got too much going for me in Melbourne. I have my job, which I have been at for five years. I've just been promoted to manager - it's a big thing. I finally made it to the top."
When she moved to Australia, her plan was only to stay for one year and then move on to Europe - another plan she hoped to pursue in the future.
"It's six years later and I am still there. But Europe is definitely on the cards. I want to go to Ireland, I have always wanted to go there. I love the Irish."
So much she wants a four-leaf clover tattooed on her right ankle to go with the other four decorating her small frame.
After all her operations, she is still scared of needles but each of her tattoos tells a different story about her, such as the butterfly on her left wrist.
"When a butterfly is born, it's a caterpillar and then it goes through all this change and emerges as a beautiful butterfly, so that is kind of like me - that's all my surgeries."
