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It was May bank holiday weekend in 2006, my best friend had just called for me on the off chance that I had a spare hour or so to go out for a ride on our motor bikes. I jumped at the chance, little did I know after getting on the bike I would not return home for several weeks! Mark unfortunately did have to return to my house, he had the task of informing Annette that I had crashed my bike and was now in the local hospital.  I was admitted and told I had thoracic fractures on T6 & T7, that was Sunday. I was then scheduled for a CT scan on the Tuesday, after which I then found out I had also sustained a cervical fracture C7. With a broken neck and back I was then moved to the Midlands Centre for Spinal Injuries. After seven weeks in bed lying flat I was happy to have my body cast fitted and return home. Looking at the statistics for these injuries I was extremely lucky to have no long term problems resulting from my accident.

The statistics are frightening!

The overall incidence of cervical spinal fracture without spinal cord injury is 3.0% that's not even taking into account the two thoracic fractures.

During my stay in Oswestry I was surrounded by people who had not been so lucky.

Please dig deep and sponsor me for all the people that are not so lucky as me.

Thanks

Gav