A man was left in his 'birthday suit' after a serious car accident left him unconscious and gave paramedics no choice but to cut off the bike leathers he was wearing.
Ady Brighton and his partner Amanda Evans, both 40, were returning home from the Wirral Egg Run Tribute on Sunday when a car suddenly turned into their path, causing them to hit the back of the vehicle and go 'skidding down the road'. Ady was knocked unconscious and was then 'in and out of consciousness' as a nurse who saw the accident put him into the recovery position.
Amanda suffered a broken shoulder in the crash and was taken to a hospital in Chester for treatment. However, Ady's condition was feared to be so serious he was air-lifted to the trauma unit at Aintree Hospital.
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Ady told the ECHO: "I'd smashed my knee cap and my tendons were torn in my hand and at the back of my leg, as well as fractures [all over my body]. They cut our clothes off us on site as they do, but what they'd done is they hadn't sent my stuff with me, because they couldn't fit it in the air ambulance."
"So I was stuck at Aintree hospital with no card, no money, no anything because my phone was dead, and no clothes - I was just in a hospital gown. I was just in my birthday suit on the trauma unit."
Despite his predicament, Ady managed to get by on the kindness of strangers, including the staff at Aintree Hospital. He continued: "I was sent to A&E because they needed the space in the trauma unit and there was this chap next to me, a lovely bloke, Paul Bose. When they had strapped my leg in splints I went down to the waiting area and realised I had no money, it was peeing down with rain and I was in a hospital gown.
"I couldn't get to the train station, I didn't have any way of contacting my family, and this chap, Paul Bose, he came down from the ward and he put £20 in my hand and said get yourselves some tea and some food, then offered to pay for a taxi to get me to the station."
Paul would also call Ady's brother's phone every half-hour until he got through the next morning so he could inform him of his sibling's situation and arrange for him to be collected.
He said: "On top of that, I'd explained my situation to the receptionists and they went about to every single nurse and doctor they could get their hands on to try and find me a charging lead for my phone. They went above and beyond their duty to help me out and they were bringing blankets for me.
"My partner [was in another hospital] and the hospital were letting me call her and letting us speak between the two hospitals and helped us reassure each other that everything was going to be okay. On top of that they paid for a taxi for her all the way from Chester back to Colwyn Bay where we live.
"They just went above and beyond the service that anyone could ask for."
