A spectator badly injured in a rally car crash that killed three people has spoken of how he is still struggling with his health one year on.
Keith McCleary was watching the Jim Clark event when one of the cars left the road and ploughed into the crowd, killing a couple and an elderly man.
Mr MCleary, 62, has since battled against the injuries sustained in the crash, which left him in a coma for nine days. The impact shattered his pelvis, crushed his ribs and left shoulder, punctured his lung and caused internal bleeding.
The father-of-three has endured months of physiotherapy to help him walk.
He has since made an emotional return to the scene of the accident. He said: "I felt no pang of angst but just took in the scene where my life changed.
"The rally card veered off the road at 100mph and through a hedge into a field to hit me full force.
"I have been very lucky and thank God every day that I survived against amazing odds.
"I remember nothing of the crash. The last thing I was conscious of was talking to a friend of my son in the field off the road and everything is a black hole of lost time in my life afterwards.
"My son Grant, was at my bedside when I came to and said, 'Hello, Dad. How are you?'
"I replied I was fine . . . but why was I in hospital?"
Mr McCleary, whose love of motorsports was driven by his own career as a rally driver, has been unable to work since the accident. However, his colleagues at Lloyd Agricultural Engineers have often visited him to buoy his spirits.
He is also desperate to get back behind the wheel.
"I'd take part in a rally tomorrow if I could. I miss it badly," he added.
"I would jump in a rally car and race tomorrow if I could. Nothing would make me give up my love of the sport, but since the accident my life has been on hold."
The three spectators killed on the Little Swinton section of the route were Iain Provan, 64, his 63-year-old partner Elizabeth Allan, from Barrhead, Renfrewshire, and 71-year-old Leonard Stern of Bearsden, Glasgow.
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