A woman whose family was told she would not survive after a car crash left her in a coma, is back behind the wheel.
Candace Emptage, from County Durham, was on a life-support machine for two months after her car was in collision with an ambulance in 2010.
The ex-model, of Burnopfield, suffered severe brain injuries and had to learn to walk and talk again.
Now driving again, after re-passing her test, she has put stickers on her car to make sure she recognises it.
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I'm trying to prove a point by driving again - the doctors said I wouldn't, so I said: 'Will I not?'”
Candace Emptage
It also has a sticker on the back window with the warning: "Serious car crash victim - the closer you come the slower I go".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-20875579
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