A dad who broke more than 30 bones in his body in a horror cycling crash has defied doctors by returning to work just months later.
James Gray was catapulted from his bike at 70km per hour just seconds into a cycle ride on a remote countryside road in Cyprus. The 48-year-old, a Ministry of Defence firefighter who has done Iron Man contests and run marathons, was so severely injured that medics feared he may die.
He broke 22 ribs, five bones in his back and his sternum in four places. But just four months later James, from Peebles in the Borders, returned to his duties with the MoD’s fire crew in Cyprus.
