Road crash survivor, 26, donates £40,000 to air ambulance

Published 21/11/2023 · Updated 21/11/2023

Steph Blake aboard an air ambulance she will help fund i(Image: HIOWAA)/i

Steph Blake aboard an air ambulance she will help fund (Image: HIOWAA) A young woman who was thrown ten feet into the air after being hit by a car on a busy Hampshire road has donated GBP40,000 to support those who helped save her life. Steph Blake was left with serious head injuries and a broken jaw following the crash on the A35 Totton Bypass in June 2018 while she walked to work from her home in Eling.

Within eight minutes of the 999 call, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance medics were at the scene administering urgent care at the side of the road before Steph could be taken to Southampton [1] General Hospital.

Now the 26-year-old has expressed her gratitude with a five-figure gift to the life-saving charity – enough to fund another 12 emergency missions.