106-year-old 'has had good life' since being declared dead at 30
A British man has celebrated his 106th birthday, despite being declared dead when he was 30 years old.
Sam Ledward’s body was wheeled down to the mortuary in 1936 after he fell into such a deep coma following a motorbike crash that doctors thought he had died – but fortunately a porter spotted his “corpse” moving shortly before he was due to be buried.
Sam is quoted by the BBC as saying: “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.
“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.”
