The devastating car crash that prepared Vicky Phelan to take on a health system decades later

A crash in France in the early 1990s claimed the lives of Vicky Phelan's boyfriend and friend and gave her a first glimpse in two very different healthcare systems

Vicky Phelan on the Moments that Made Me

Campaigner Vicky Phelan has described a fatal car crash she survived as a teenager as one of the defining moments of her life.

Vicky was just 18 years old when she was a front-seat passenger in a crash in France that claimed three lives, including those of her boyfriend and her friend, and paralysed another of her friends.