A biker from UK, who was proclaimed dead 76 years ago after suffering a motorbike crash in 1936, celebrated his 106th birthday this weekend
Sam Ledward went into such a deep coma that doctors thought he had passed away, the Mirror reported.
His body was being wheeled down to the mortuary when a hospital porter noticed his “corpse” move and rushed him back to the ward, the publication reported.
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Ledward said that his extraordinary long life was down to “sheer luck.”
“I’ll be all right for a while yet. You don’t get rid of me like that. I was declared dead in 1936. I was on my 500cc Triumph motorbike, and the front wheel burst,” the paper quoted him as saying.
“I was in a coma but I woke up five days later on the way to the mortuary. They thought I was dead, but on the way there, one of the attendants noticed something move - I think it was my hand.
“They had to do a U-turn with me and took me back to the hospital ward. I’ve had a good life since,” he said.
Ledward, who was a joiner most of his working life, was born in Cheshire in 1906.
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