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Slatyford mam fighting back after horrific motorbike smash

Aug 7 2011 by Katie Davies, Sunday Sun

Jasmine Laws and Great North Air Ambulance crew

BATTLING Jasmine Laws has told of her brush with death after she was catapulted through a fence in a horrific motorbike smash.

The mum-of-two suffered around seven broken bones in her back, eight broken ribs and a collapsed lung.

So devastating were Jasmine’s injuries, surgeons had to perform emergency operations to save her life.

When her condition deteriorated days after the crash when she caught pneumonia, her mum, Joan Mallin, 60, and her children, Rob, 22, and Sophie, 18, feared the worst.

But now, after spending more than three months in hospital, the 39-year-old is on the long road to recovery – and she’s determined to raise cash for the Great North Air Ambulance which saved her.

From her home in Slatyford, Newcastle, the former barmaid spoke of her thanks to everyone who has helped her following the crash in April on the B6320 near Bellingham, Northumberland.

She said: “There are so many people who have helped me – the air ambulance, fire service, paramedics, doctors, nurses and family and friends. Now all I want to do is to be able to walk again. It was really hard coming back home and trying to do things that I used to be able to do.”