Simon gets his life back on track
By TMX Archives on 8th Dec 06
FORMER British championship rider Simon Lawson, as many of you will know, was paralysed from the chest down (T5/ T6) after sustaining serious injuries in a crash whilst practising in July 2001.
He spent a week in intensive care unconscious, three weeks in a high dependency unit and the rest of his three months in hospital in a rehabilitation ward.
His local Cumbrian clubs and very good friends raised an incredible amount of money for their local hero which has helped adapt his home in Cumbria to enable him to come and go in his wheelchair with ease.
The keen motorcycle enthusiast says: "Once out of hospital I got on with my life and went to watch my brother, Rich racing all over the country, getting around on a quad, I even went Go-Karting from time to time, but, nothing excited me like motocross racing and riding my bike did, and I kind of went through a low patch for a while.
"I then gave myself a shake and started to live my life again, getting out more and going back to the racing more often.
"After my crash I never thought it would be possible to ride again, but I had a little ride down a field on Rich's bike, once, but it wasn't really happening, so I just kind of left it at that until earlier this year when I saw a film clip of an American kid called Ricky James who has the same injury as me, and he had adapted a bike so that he could still ride.
For full story see T+MX NEWS, Friday, December 8, 2006