TICKETS are on sale for a fundraising event in support of Wickwar teenager Lewis Jackson, who ‘defied medical logic’ last year and survived a horrific car crash.
Lewis, 19, was driving to work a night shift at Waitrose in Chipping Sodbury in November 2015 but the former Katharine Lady Berkeley pupil never made it and instead was found by a passer by who spotter his car’s headlights in a bush.
He was put into an induced coma and Lewis’ family was told to expect the worst.
“We were told to expect a call saying he hadn’t made it,” said Lewis’ sister Christine. “At hospital we were told three options; he would die, he would survive with a severe disability or he would survive but be brain damaged.
“It was a lot to deal with.”
Amazingly, after two weeks in intensive care, Lewis was well enough to move onto a neurological ward and two days before Christmas last year he woke up for the first time since the accident.
“Now he has some short-term memory loss and he struggles a little with his right side but otherwise he is doing really well,” said Christine, who already organised a homecoming party for Lewis which raised £1,600.
Now she is holding another event, at The Star Inn in Wotton-under-Edge on Saturday, July 30 (7pm), which will include a raffle, barbecue, live music and photobooth sessions. Funds raised will be split between Southmead Hospital’s intensive care unit and the Great Western Ambulance Service.
Donations are still being welcomed – to help call The Star Inn.
“We are aiming to raise more than the £1,600 that we raised in April,” said Christine.
“I would like to beat the £2,000 mark for all of the life-saving work the services did to help my brother.”
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