BRAVE CYCLIST TELLS HOW HE HAS
Groom ties knot on spot where he had his accident
email When Scottie Elliott suffered a serious head injury and was left fighting for life after a cycling crash, doctors told him he may never walk again.
But, just 12 months later, Scottie and his partner Katie marked the first anniversary of the accident by dancing at their wedding party.
And he’s in no doubt his passion for dancing helped him recover.
The 49-year- old, of Edinburgh, said: “Katie and I had only met at our very first dance class a few months before my accident so it was dancing that brought us together.
“The doctors sat her down and told her I’d suffered a serious brain injury and may never wake up from my coma. “They said if I did, I may have brain damage and a whole lot of issues – from not being able to walk to a change in my personality. A brain injury isn’t like a broken leg – you don’t know how it’s going to recover – but I received amazing support and was very lucky.
“Right from the beginning of my recovery, I had two goals – to be able to get back on my bike and to dance again with Katie.
“What better way to mark the first anniversary of my accident than dancing at our wedding?”
Council worker Scottie and Katie, 38, who live in Hove, east Sussex, had been together for just six months when Scottie decided to cycle along Brighton seafront in thick fog one dark evening and crashed headf irst into an unlit bus shelter.
He hadn’t been wea r i ng a helmet and suffered a fractured sku l l , a broken