Leah Washington and her husband Joe Pugh, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, opened up about the life-changing day of the crash in 2015, on the Tom's Talks Podcast with mindset coach Tom Dickinson.
The victims of the Alton Towers crash have relived the horror theme park smash nearly a decade after the ordeal.
'But they ignored whoever told them to do that and they did save our lives. They basically said, 'if we don't go help them now, they are not going to survive'.' Leah added: 'We did a couple of loops and then we went around this corner and as we went around I could see another cart straight away.' 'It was such a complex operation, once they cut the bars off us to cut us out, we were not strapped into anything.'
Speaking about the extent of his own injuries, Joe said: 'I shattered both knee caps, broke my middle finger on my right hand and snapped my little finger off my left hand and they basically just reattached that. I had knee surgery and basically just have one whole knee cap between two knees.' Alton Towers owner Merlin Attractions were fined £5million for health and safety breaches which were blasted by Judge Michael Chambers QC as a 'catastrophic failure'.Taking to social media to update their followers and wellwishers, the couple posted several loved-up pictures as they thanked the public for their support
Seven years after the crash the couple got engaged during a romantic getaway to Italy in 2022, before Leah, 26, enjoyed a hen do with a dozen close friends and family in the Algarve, Portugal last year.Newly married Leah posed confidently in a white bikini while wearing her prosthetic leg, which she removes before taking a dip in the pool.
'We want to thank our family, friends, bridesmaid and groomsmen for making our day so memorable and worth the two years of planning. Now time to celebrate on our mini moon.' Speaking previously about how their relationship suffered in the aftermath of the tragic incident, Leah told Ok!: 'If you'd told either of us during the weeks that followed our horrific accident at Alton Towers that we'd be planning our wedding now, I don't think we'd have believed it.'She often shares clips of herself participating in various sports, partying and even modelling.
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