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Dad owes double debt of thanks to Air Ambulance

Jan 17 2010 Sunday Sun

David Fozard with son Joe

DOTING dad David Fozard is walking tall again after recovering from a horror smash.

The 53-year old had to be cut from the crumpled wreck of his car after being hit head-on by a foreign driver on the wrong side of the road.

The dad-of-two was air-lifted from the scene of the smash, in Northumberland, to Newcastle General Hospital where medics saved his crushed ankles and feet.

When minutes mattered the Great North Air Ambulance was there for him. Today he is back on his feet and edging ever closure to a full recovery.

His rescue came just three days after the Fozard family handed in a cheque to the GNAA, still indebted to them for helping save son Joe’s life years earlier, when he had a severe asthma attack.

Their belief they would never need the emergency service again was shattered when the confused Spanish driver ploughed into David’s BMW, last September.

David, of Belsay, Northumberland, said: “I was just on my way home from work on the B6524, between Whalton and Morpeth when he came round the bend and hit me head-on. I didn’t have time to think about swerving, or anything.

“You’re just sat there trying to decide whether you’re alive or dead, it’s a very eerie moment.

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