'I broke my back in four places and could have been dead, now I'm coaching a winning basketball team'
Paul Burnage, a paramedic at the Great North Air Ambulance Service , was just coming off duty and was the only medic at the charity’s Langwathby base when the crash happened. He rushed to the scene and requests that another aircraft from the GNAAS' Teesside base airlift Danny to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle.Danny's grandmother Gail Ewin said: “Paul was just leaving, luckily for Danny. He got him to Newcastle and said if he’d gone by road he would have been dead.
Despite being left paralysed, Danny has not let this stop him from achieving his goals in life. He said: “It was difficult coming to terms with my injuries but with the support of my loving mother, she made me look at the bigger picture and look at everybody else around me with worse injuries who would happily swap places with me.”
He was also nominated for an adult learner of the year and came first at an engineering trade competition between all of the colleges in
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