A man could only be recognised by his nose after being crushed by a horse while driving to work. Ian Tilston, 34, was driving on the M56 from Hawarden, north Wales, to Nantwich when a horse catapulted onto his car as he drove down the slip road.
The horse had escaped from a nearby field and as Ian exited junction 10, a car in front of him hit the horse. The horse then hit the 34-year-old’s car, crushing him and his car, the Echo reports. Ian received life-saving brain surgery at Salford Royal Hospital and a number of other procedures, one of which involved reconstructing his face.
"He was put in an induced coma for a few weeks and when he woke up they moved him to The Walton Centre," said his brother, Adam Tilston, to the Echo, more than a year on from the accident which occurred on January 10, 2022.
