A brave Scottish schoolboy has overcome two years of gruelling rehabilitation and five months in a wheelchair to learn to walk again after being struck by a car. Denis-Jack Ward now has an action-packed summer holiday ahead of him after he was involved in the accident which caused horrific injuries to his leg.
The six-year-old suffered an open fracture to his leg when he was hit by the motor in front of his horrified family in 2021. He had to have skin from his knee to ankle removed in the accident, with his family warned he may never walk again.
After a series of operations and a challenging physiotherapy regime, the East Lothian youngster is back on his feet, playing football and riding his bike. His mum, Dionne Leadbetter told the Scottish Daily Express: “We are so grateful to all of the team at the hospital. They were all amazing. They have given my little boy his life back.”
