A MAN who was brought back to life twice after a horrific car crash has thanked the paramedics who saved his life.

David Keen, 41, skidded sideways on sheet ice on the A59 at Balderstone and smashed head-on into a 4x4.

The pipe welder was left with multiple breaks including a fractured breastbone, nerve damage to his left arm and breaks in his right arm and leg.

The crash happened as he travelled to work at ICI, in Clitheroe.

Paramedics Julie Boyle, Sam English and Tony Lavelle were mobilised to the scene and worked to keep David, from Leigh, alive.

They are urging the bystander who carried out first aid and remained on the scene to come forward.

Now David, who returned to work six months after the accident in December 2008, has returned to thank the crew at Blackburn ambulance station.

He said: “It is brilliant to see them. I feel embarrassed that I can’t do anything more than thank them and give them a card.

"They have saved my life, I owe them my life.

“I couldn’t do the paramedics’ job, they are brilliant people. I take my hat off to them all. Because of them my kids have a dad.”

Paramedic Julie Boyle said: “It is a rarity that someone who we have helped comes in to thank us.

“And it is nice when someone who we helped does come back.”