Shahna Thwaites has made an amazing recovery after a terrible car crash five years ago, which killed two other people.

Her parents were told at the time they might as well turn off her life support machine because she was in such a poor way.

Now 23-year-old Shahna, from Barnham, is still suffering from brain damage and is partly paralysed down one side.

She is joining police in a Christmas road safety campaign, which aims to save others from the horrors of crashes.

The driver had taken drugs at a festival and none of the five people in the car, which overturned on a motorway, were wearing a seat belt.

The campaign warns people like Shahna not to get into a car with people who may be under the influence of drink and drugs and to always wear a seat belt.

Shahna is brave and determined but her life would have been many times better if this terrible and avoidable accident had never occurred.