'I am a different person': Living with life-changing injuries as a result of road crashes

Last year, 812 people were seriously injured on the country’s roads. Jack White talks to three people who have been left with life-altering injuries after road traffic collisions and hears from one survivor ‘living in a system that literally forgets you once you become disabled’

John Phelan from Kildangan, Co. Kildare: 'The speed of some people on the road is just frightening.' Picture: Alf Harvey

"There are days I would have thought would it have been easier had I not survived,” says John Phelan.

Mr Phelan is one of the 812 people seriously injured on Irish roads in 2022.