Janet Griffiths suffered multiple injuries in an early-morning crash on the A5 on November 18 last year, when an oncoming vehicle ploughed into her car which was on its correct side of the road.

The 50-year-old care worker had to be cut free from the wreckage of her Vauxhall Cavalier having suffered fractures to both legs, her hip and ankle were broken and her skull was fractured, after she was in collision with a van near the Churncote roundabout on the Shrewsbury bypass.

Later she was told by doctors her injuries were so serious that she was lucky to be alive and learned she had received five litres of blood at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.

A care worker at a Shrewsbury nursing home, Mrs Griffiths, who was recently married, is still unable to walk any distance without a frame and cannot climb stairs, making her bed in the lounge of her home in Western Avenue. She faces a difficult future which has been made more uncertain by the decision not to prosecute the other driver.

She says as she approached the roundabout she was in her proper lane when she saw headlights coming straight towards her and can remember nothing more until waking in intensive care four days later.

Angry

Last week she received a letter from the Criminal Justice Support Unit at Shrewsbury, telling her of their decision not to prosecute the other driver.

In a telephone conversation with an officer from the unit Mrs Griffiths was told that the other driver has insisted that an animal, possibly a fox, had run across the road, forcing him to swerve across the carriageway. There were no independent witnesses to the accident.

Mrs Griffiths says that she knows nothing about the other driver apart from his nationality, Polish, but is angry and puzzled by the decision.

"I am not a nasty person or biased against any nationality but I can't believe that someone is on the wrong side of the road and nothing is done about it," she said.

But through the Advertizer she would like to thank the policeman and nurse who stopped to help as they were on their way to work in the dark morning and to all who helped her during her stay in the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.

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