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My yucca has been run over help please ,please anyone !
Hello everyone can anyone help me please my sons girlfriend has just past her driving test and last night she reversed her car and killed one of my yuccas 
it is only attached my a third what shall I do ? it is about 15 years old my husband says to cut it off and put it in a bucket of sand or water if anyone can give me any advice on how to save it i would be so happy 
thank you in advance
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If you cut it off completely, it will send up new shoots from the rootstock. I had one that was not doing well. I tried to cut it off and dig it out, and I had young ones coming up from the remaining rootstock for years.
You can also strip a fair amount of leaves from the broken tops and plant them in pots and they may very well root...I found a broken yucca in the rubbish bins once, planted the tops and they all rooted... it was the softer house-plant yucca though. Worth a try anyway, methinks.
Fidgetbones, I tried and tried to PM you about the rose cuttings, but the silly websites always gets stuck, I don't know why, and I could not remember in what thread we had talked about it anymore!!!
Thank you should I cut it off then replant it
sorry for being stupid but ...what's the root stock 
I agree with fidgetbones. Also, if you cut off all of the leaves from the broken piece and plant it in a 50/50 mix of grit and compost in a large pot, it will root and eventually give you a new plant. I did that when I accidentally broke a piece off of mine while removing an old flowering stem. They are tough plants and real survivors.
It will send up new shoots from the rootstock which is below ground AND you can plant the broken bit if you cut off all of the leaves from it.
The rootstock is the large woody bit below ground. I was digging bits out for years. One of the new shoots I moved to a bucket, and then eventually a better, sunny spot. Last year it flowered.
I would just bin the old top.
Katherine I have messaged you. see if you can reply to it.
Root stock = the part of the plant that is underground. The very base of the stem and roots
Thank you everyone for all your help and advice
not sure how I would get on without this forum 
Luckily for you cut yucca stems with the top leaves still attached will root extremely easily when placed in a bucket of water. Within a few weeks you will see that many new white roots have started to grow out at the end up of the stem and then you simply pot it up in a pot of potting soil and let it grow on and establish properly before hardening off and transplanting back out into the garden.
thank you for all your help I'm gonna take hippophae advice and put it in a bucket of water and wait for the new roots to appear then transplant it back into the garden