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Dan Walker still faces daily health struggles five months after horror bike crash-Meghna Amin-Entertainment – Metro
‘It could have been very different.’
Dan Walker has admitted he still faces health struggles, months after the crash (Picture: Dan Walker/David Fisher/Shutterstock)
Dan Walker has revealed he still faces daily health struggles like getting out of the car, five months after his horror bike crash.
The Channel 5 presenter was involved in a serious crash in February, which left him bruised and battered after being knocked off his bike by a car.
Dan, 46, shared pictures immediately after his fall from inside an ambulance, and has since been updating fans with his long recovery.
Earlier this year, he spoke about potentially needing to have his tooth removed and being unable to feel a part of his lip, and he’s now shared another health update.
The Strictly Come Dancing star said: ‘I landed on my right hip really, really heavily and I jolted my back a bit, so I’ve got nerve damage down the right side of my body.
‘Every time I get out of a car, it takes me about two minutes to get my legs kicking into gear.’
Dan added that he was relieved to have not suffered from more ‘serious’ consequences after the crash.
Dan shared snaps from inside the ambulance straight after the crash (Picture: Dan Walker)
He continued to the Express: ‘But it’s okay, I’m getting better.
‘I didn’t break anything, it could have been a lot more serious than it was.’
He added: ‘Every injury I had was below the level of my helmet, and the guys in the ambulance told me that the car stopped 50 centimetres away from my head.
‘So it could have been very different.’
This comes after Dan explained he had an out-of-body experience after the crash.
Dan shared updates with fans following the crash, and got back on his bike a month later (Picture: Dan Walker/Twitter)
‘I had a strange experience where I was watching myself on the floor then eventually I came back into my body,’ he told The Sun’s TV magazine.
‘It was a sort of reset moment for me.’
At the time he shared a series of images of his bloodied and bruised face on social media after he was rushed from the scene in an ambulance.
‘Bit of an accident this morning. Glad to be alive after getting hit by a car on my bike,’ he wrote.
He spent 10 days recovering, before returning to his job on Channel 5’s 5 News, and got back on his bike just a month later.
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