MASONS_REBEKAH_RUN_02

Supposedly one of the "last photos" of Rebekah in intensive care; she wasn't expected to survive at this stage. A young woman who defeated impossible odds of survival after a car accident as a child is set to run more than 5 km. See MASONS story MNRUN; A woman who overcame near-impossible odds after a car crash when she was three years-old is about to run 5K for the charity which saved her life. Rebekah (corr) Cheshire had to re-learn virtually all the basic life skills - how to walk, talk, hear, sit, eat and see - after the horrific accident. Her mother was driving her to nursery in 1994 when she lost control on an icy road and ploughed into a 10ft ditch. Rebekah suffered two brain brain haemorrhages and had to be brought back to life twice in the ambulance on the way to hospital. Doctors told her mum Louise Donaldson to say goodbye to her daughter as scans showed an almost impossible chance of survival. And she was warned if Rebekah did make it there would be an 85 per cent chance she would need 24-hour care. But Rebekah, now 23, made an incredible recovery and lives semi-independently in Peterborough, Cambs. close to her family