A deputy head teacher was forced to learn to walk again after being mown down by a motorbike on a dream holiday Lauren Kay, 29, was in Thailand when her holiday turned into a nightmare when she was knocked down by the biker just three weeks into the five month solo trip.
She was left with horrific injuries, including was a fractured skull, eye socket and kneecap, broken shoulder, three broken ribs, a ruptured spleen and lacerated liver.
Lauren needed a life-saving six-hour operation and additional plastic surgery to save her from being permanently disfigured from the accident in November.
But miraculously, the teacher, from Oldham, Greater Manchester, took her first steps in a hospital in Phuket just two weeks later, despite doctors' fears