Latest News - Charity funds bumped up!

Every time there’s a bump or a scrape on Wiltshire’s busy roads, three local health service charities stand to gain from subsequent accident repairs carried out by the Bodytech crashrepair centre.

Following a painful recovery from a serious motorcycle race crash last year, proprietor Andy Downes is donating ten per cent
of all his business’s accident repair earnings to the medical services that he says saved him.

The county’s air ambulance service and Salisbury Hospital’s spinal injuries unit will benefit from a ‘tithe’ that could run into thousands of pounds every year.

Andy was airlifted from the Isle of Wight after he broke his neck and was left temporarily paralysed when his grass track
racing bike crashed at high speed.

The veteran racer admits his life was literally in the hands of the trackside first-aiders and ambulance crews who treated him
at the scene before he was taken to hospital.

Three operations later, Andy is now back on his feet and he has decided to make rolling donations to the Wiltshire and Hampshire Air Ambulance services and the city’s spinal injuries unit.

Customers will be given written confirmation of the donation on their invoices and the three-way share of money will be transferred to air ambulance and hospital charity funds’ accounts every week.

“I’ve been very, very lucky,” says Andy. “It was touch and go for a while there, and being paralysed was the most terrifying thing I have ever experienced.

“Fortunately, the health service was there when I needed it most and it didn’t let me down. I want to thank all the doctors, nurses and other staff at the hospitals in Sandown, Southampton and Salisbury who made my recovery possible, and the tithe
is my way of saying it.”

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