A young woman feared paralysed after breaking her back, legs and pelvis and shattering her ankle in 30 places after falling out of a fourth storey window has taken her first steps just three months on from the horrific accident. Sophie Bracken, 23, was feeling sick at the end of her friend's birthday night out, so went to the window at the Manchester city centre apartment to get some fresh air.
But she got 'a bit too close to the edge', lost her balance and fell over, plunging 40ft onto the pavement below in the early hours of Sunday, September 4. Her screams for help were eventually heard by a taxi passenger who got the driver to pull over.
Sophie was initially taken to Manchester Royal Infirmary before being treated for several weeks at the Greater Manchester Major Trauma Centre at Salford Royal. Her injuries were so severe doctors feared she'd be permanently paralysed.
