A Glasgow man who woke up to find his legs on fire after falling onto a electrified train tracks has turned his life around thanks to an amputee charity.
Paul Johnson was forced to have both limbs cut off above the knee after the freak accident near his home in Pollokshields.The 29-year-old was coming home from a night out in November 2013 when he decided to take a shortcut across the railway line but slipped and fell.
His bag, containing his mobile phone, landed away from his body meaning he had to crawl to reach it while the flames took hold.Recalling the terrifying event, Paul said: “That night I was coming home at 4am and decided to take a shortcut across the overhead beams of the railway line.
I was electrocuted by the overhead wires and that caused me to fall onto the tracks and black out.“For a couple of hours I was knocked out cold.
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