MAN CLIMBS MOUNTAIN TO GET LIFE BACK AFTER 'INTERNAL DECAPITATION'

A MIDLAND man described as the 'most broken patient' paramedics had ever seen has told of the hard work behind his extraordinary recovery.

- NEIL SHAW News Reporter

Simon Clark, now 45, was 'internally decapitated' in a car accident that claimed the life of his partner Lindy.

And the former estate agent said that despite walking the Everest Base Camp Trail, trekking the Icelandic Highlands and climbing Mount Toubkal in Northern Africa since his accident, he is still in constant pain and suffers from PTSD after the accident, when the couple's car, driven by Lindy, swerved into the path of an oncoming car on a blind bend in 2019.

Simon, who also had severe brain trauma, more than two dozen major fractures, multiple organ damage and a two-inch hole in the main artery carrying blood from his heart, is now training to walk to the North Pole.

Simon doesn't remember much more than a loud bang and intense pain in his left hip.

"I took the full impact on my left side which is why I sustained so many broken bones," he said.

"I shattered the top three vertebrae and completely separated my skull from my spine. My head was only held on by skin, muscle, nerves and other tissue. Basically, my head was flopping around like a chicken with its neck broken."

Simon, from Gloucestershire, remembers nothing until two months later where he received the devastating news that the love of his life had died in the collision.