A FUNDRAISING campaign that helped save the life of Scots judo star Stephanie Inglis has been closed after topping £320,000.
Stephanie, 27, suffered life-threatening injuries in a horrific motorbike accident in Vietnam where she was teaching English.
It had been feared she would not survive the crash but a charity drive to help pay her massive medical bills and get the best treatment saw tens of thousands of pounds quickly flood in.
The GoFundMe page was set up by Stephanie’s friends and received donations from fellow athletes, football clubs and members of the public.
But with Stephanie recovering at her parents’ home in Inverness it has been announced the fundraising has finished with a total of £327,892 being pledged.
The Save Steph Facebook page said: “This Morning the Save Steph Team have closed the acceptance off donations in to the gofundme page.“The amount raised to help Stephanie has been amazing, there maybe a few people who perhaps still have not donated what they collected and if this is the case please message us and we will explain what to do with it.
“We are currently finalising to date the complete cost of Stephanie’s medical and ongoing treatments but it will be close to what we raised after the deductions made by gofundme me and the bank processing charges.
“It’s incredible to imagine the significant costs involved in medical care in other countries; again we can’t thank people enough for what they did, as Steph said without it she would probably not be here.”
Stephanie was given only a one per cent chance of survival after she fell from a motorbike.
She was saved by surgeons in Thailand following the fundraising effort to pay for her care.
The Commonwealth Games silver medallist has no memory of the accident which almost took her life in May and said the first thing she remembers is waking up in a hospital in Edinburgh.
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