I thought world had ended after horrific smash
A nurse who will never walk again after a horror crash today told how the fateful night has changed her life forever.
Susan Moseley was speaking for the first time from her hospital bed as she continues her slow recovery from a New Year's Day smash in Walsall.
The 50-year-old has started to have flashbacks to the accident which has left her disabled. "I've had to have tablets because it's so frightening," she said.
"There was an orangey-brown and then blackness. It was like the world was going to end and in a way it has for me."
Mrs Moseley broke her back, all her ribs and both her ankles in the smash in Lichfield Road, in Pelsall.
She was returning from driving home two close friends following a New Year celebration at the bungalow in Burntwood she shares with her civil partner Susan Dunning.
The other motorist Amanda Chambers, aged 40, of Harpur Road, Walsall, who admitted careless driving, was fined £90 and banned for a year.
Mrs Moseley, a mental health nurse, said today: "The only thing I can remember about the car journey is feeling very happy. We'd had a wonderful evening. Every year since I've been with Sue, we've celebrated the New Year with all our family and close friends."
Driving back in her Renault Clio, she was looking forward to her 50th birthday in January. She now hopes to leave the specialist spinal injuries hospital in Oswestry next month but will have to move into supported accommodation before returning home.
