A YOUNG woman who was told she may never walk properly again after breaking both her legs in a car accident has spoken of her recovery ahead of her prime time television bow tonight.

Emma Musgrave, of Darlington, crashed her car just two weeks after she had passed her driving test.

The 19-year-old was given a downbeat assessment by medics, but yesterday said she was “100 per cent recovered”.

Miss Musgrave’s story will feature on BBC One’s new series Air Medics, which airs at 8.30pm.

The show, part of a series, follows the crews of the Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) as they travel across the region on life-saving missions.

Tonight’s episode, filmed in June 2007, shows Miss Musgrave’s car caught in a mangled cattle grid near Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire.

She had broken both femurs and needed to be cut from the wreckage.

“I don’t remember a lot of it,” she said yesterday.

“I was coming into Catterick from Leyburn in the torrential rain.

“As I was coming down the hill towards the cattle grid, I started to aquaplane and I crashed into a pole.”

GNAAS were on the scene within minutes and she was airlifted to hospital, where she was given the grim prognosis.

She said: “After the crash, doctors told me I wouldn’t be able to walk properly again, but I’m out running again now.

“I can even do the splits, I’m 100 per cent recovered.”

Grahame Pickering, chief executive of GNAAS, said the show could prove to be a timely boost for the charity.

He said: “As a regional charity, we were delighted to be picked by BBC One to take part in such a prestigious documentary to showcase the work of GNAAS.

“We are fully aware of the present economic climate and how hard times are and hope that this programme will help to make people aware of the hard work we do on a daily basis.

“If people do have a spare few pounds, we hope they think of us as we receive no government or lottery funding.”

After a year out, Miss Musgrave is now making plans for the future.

She said: “I am going to Leeds Metropolitan University next term to study accounting and finance.”

However, she added: “ I’m not planning on becoming a driving instructor.”