The Dannevirke woman was seriously injured in a quadbike accident on a dairy farm in 2007.
When she regained consciousness in Palmerston North Hospital, she discovered she had been married six weeks before the crash. She could not remember her wedding, her husband, or any other details about life before the accident.
She candidly admitted this week she had been through "absolute hell" since then.
Mrs Mott is one of the accident victims at the foerfront a new action plan, launched at Parliament this week by Labour Minister Kate Wilkinson, to bring down the "unacceptable" number of workplace injuries in the agriculture sector.
The Agriculture Sector Action Plan targets four areas that account for at least half of all injuries and deaths in the sector. These are use of agricultural vehicles and machinery; the physical and mental health/wellbeing of agricultural workers; slips, trips and falls; and animal handling.
Agriculture has one of the highest rates of workplace injury, disease and fatalities each year - double the average rate across all sectors. Provisional figures showed 15 agricultural workers were killed last year.
"People working in agriculture are exposed to a wide range of hazards. Their work is physically and mentally demanding, the hours are long and people often work in isolation.
"Agriculture is vital for New Zealand but it is also one of our most dangerous industries. On average we lose one farmer every month, with a farmer injured every 30 minutes. That is unacceptable," Ms Wilkinson said.
"If I can save someone going through what I've been through, I'm in for it," she said when contacted.
"Accidents happen when you least expect. To me, accidents happen. It's best to go safe."
Mrs Mott, who was brought up on a dairy farm, had been working on the farm where the accident happened for less than a month.
After milking cows in the morning and sorting them in the afternoon, she was a passenger, riding "side-saddle" on a quadbike, taking cattle back to their paddock.
There was a policy on the farm to wear helmets, but she was not wearing one that afternoon.
She remembered nothing about the crash, but had been told there was a rock involved.
She had to "start right from scratch" and it was not only a traumatic experience for herself, but also her family.
She considered her first home to be hospital and when her husband did take her home, she said "this isn't my home".
The couple later had a second wedding ceremony, which was "absolutely amazing".
Still affected by pain and fatigue, life for Mrs Mott now was "one day at a time" and she had to take it easy. But every day was a blessing, she said.
The action plan, developed in conjunction with industry and stakeholders, sets out how the agriculture sector and the Government will work together during the next two years and beyond to reduce the work toll and outlines specific actions.
They include reducing harm from the use of quadbikes on farms; providing high-quality information and training to the farming community; reducing falls on farms; providing suicide prevention support; and promoting health and safety in particular areas such as the wool, beef and lamb industries.
Figures from ACC show there is a cost of $10 million a year in claims from accidents relating to quadbikes.
