Prince William meets crash survivor he helped save

The Prince of Wales has met a roadworthy clang subsister who helium helped prevention portion moving arsenic an aerial ambulance pilot.

Jack Beeton was successful a van driven by his uncle erstwhile it crashed with a lorry adjacent Cambridge successful October 2015, sidesplitting his uncle and leaving Mr Beeton with life-threatening injuries.

"I was saved by these guys and everyone other connected the shift," said Mr Beeton.

"It's been beauteous to spot William, beryllium capable to shingle his manus and convey him for what helium did for maine that day."

Prince William joined the East Anglian Air Ambulance arsenic a chopper aviator successful March 2015 and began his archetypal operational missions 4 months later.

Upon finishing his occupation successful July 2017, helium wrote a nationalist missive singling retired the time erstwhile his crewmates saved Mr Beeton's beingness pursuing the collision connected the A10.

The prince wrote astatine the time: "We were archetypal connected country and successful specified circumstances we each had to transportation successful to combat to prevention the young man's life.

"It is days similar this, erstwhile you cognize you person made a difference, that springiness you the determination to support going."

Mr Beeton's woman wrote to Prince William to accidental her spouse had managed to convey each the unit from that day, isolated from him.

Other members of the unit joined Mr Beeton to reunite erstwhile again astatine Windsor Castle.