A man who was told he would never walk again made a life-changing decision to remove his leg.
Mike Elkins was involved in a road traffic accident after he crashed into a parked car in a moment that changed his life forever. Despite five years of being in and out of hospital and 15 operations, his leg was not improving.
When he was 27-years-old, Mike, from Upton, made the tough decision to have his leg amputated in 1997, five years on from the crash in 1992. The now-56-year-old said: "I was lucky to come away with the injuries I did but I'd swerved and hit a parked car because I was distracted by something else on the other side of the road.
