in april 2013 i was involved in a road
traffic accident I'd spent five months
out in France working a ski season I was
19 years old and it was the last day all
of us were heading home on a coach and
we were heading down the mountain side
and this particular road is quite
notorious for its bends and on the very
last bend - bend 21 of the mountain the
coach actually lost control and it went
into the side of a mountain and exploded
I got caught in the flames I was set on
fire
luckily one of my friends managed to get
back onto the coach grabbed me and throw
me off and him doing that saved my life
there was a bed available in a hospital
in the UK - Whiston Hospital in
Merseyside so basically my parents were
given the decision the very last
decision do you want to fly her bearing
in mind the chances of her surviving the
flight are probably one percent i was
able to miraculously survive the flight
and I was taken straight to the
intensive care unit of Whiston Hospital
where I remained in an induced coma for
three months and i had the first of
hundreds of operations the day after I
was admitted I was having medical
procedures every single day and you know
I've never been in hospital for this
ever so it was just a massive thing
and it's not something you expect to go
through when you're 19 years old
my parents were advised by the hospital
in those first few months of me being in
intensive care that they could make a
personal injury claim or I i could make
a personal injury claim and they could
get the ball rolling really so they
asked around you know they asked their
friends they asked people they knew for
recommendations and Slater and Gordon
came up time and time again
obviously in that situation my parents
already had enough to deal with my
family already had enough to deal with
and slater & gordon dealt with it
absolutely fantastically you know they
they weren't they didn't put a load on
my parents it was up to them when they
needed to do stuff if they have to see
me I was the priority and that yeah they
were fantastic and my parents have said
that throughout that especially those first
eight months they were
completely considerate of the situation
they were just fantastic you know they
needed to talk to me and they did not
push for me to talk to them it was up to
me when I was ready and I was able to
sit down and have a chat with the
solicitor
i would say honestly the first time I
met my solicitor was the time I realized
that this team had my interests at
heart
it's been like talking to a friend
throughout the whole process this has
happened and I've been thrust into a
world of law and I've been thrust into a
world of medicine and before that I had
absolutely no idea how any of it worked
you know they knew my case back
front and that was literally the first
time they've met me but they knew the ins
and outs they knew you know they knew
exactly what I needed what I might need
they sort of they predicted what I was
going to ask and things like that so it
worked really well in that way and also
fact that you need done places like it
before it was just you know what it was
just that they made you feel so
comfortable and I think that's the
biggest thing you know if I ever didn't
understand anything it would be
explained to me completely fully and
that's made the whole process a lot
easier
my focus was getting better and my focus
was my physiotherapy my occupational
therapy my case manager that was
appointed through Slater and Gordon was again
fantastic because they got me my hand
therapist
they helped organize the interim
payments that I originally received to
pay for all of these people when i sat
down and you know we got the result that
I wanted that was a massive day and I
was extremely grateful and thankful
for choosing slater & gordon and extremely
grateful and thankful to my solicitor and
my barrister for the amazing job they did
no money is ever going to change what
happened to me but it is going to make
my life 10 times easier i'm glad i chose
Slater Gordon and I wouldn't have chosen
another solicitors