A Scots mum who was left paralysed from the waist down after crushing her spinal cord in a horror motorbike crash vowed to walk again for her five young sons. Tracey Mitchell was riding solo when she lost control and was thrown into woodland on a remote country road near Ballater, Aberdeenshire, in June 2021.
After being briefly knocked out, the 50-year-old managed to call 999 but lay undiscovered for 40 minutes as ambulance crews struggled to find her amongst the trees. She told how she felt ‘instant relief’ after seeing Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance hovering above her before being rushed to hospital in Aberdeen.
The former school worker was then transferred to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow where she spent the next six weeks learning to walk again. She is now set to take part in Aberdeen’s 3.7k Kiltwalk on June 4 with her sons Rhys 23, Dylan 21, Ethan 18, Zach 17, and Xander 14 - who inspired her to keep fighting.
