Richard Jones was driving his truck onto a slip road when he was he was involved in a devastating crash that was to utterly change his life. The 34-year-old suffered a range of catastrophic injuries including a broken hip and pelvis, kidney and liver failure, and a ruptured spleen.
But thanks to a heroic passer-by who stemmed the bleeding, followed by Wales Air Ambulance medics who made him stable enough to be transferred to Morriston Hospital in Swansea after the crash near Johnstown in Carmarthenshire, he survived. He would, however, spend 10 days in a coma and need his right leg amputated above the knee due to a severed artery.
Yet out of this horrific ordeal came something incredibly positive. In a bizarre twist of fate while he was in hospital he built up a rapport with one of the nurses – and more than two years on from the accident the pair are together and have an eight-month-old son. "If I hadn't had the accident we probably would never have met. I don't take anything for granted like I used to," he said.
