THE Worcester teacher who was seriously injured in a road accident will get his Christmas wish of spending time at home with his family.

Robert Young, aged 29, of Caldy Avenue, St Peter's, suffered a broken pelvis and ribs and a punctured lung in the crash in October.

He was in a coma for almost a week and has spent the last two months at Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham.

The head of IT at Walkwood Middle School, Redditch, who spent a successful night at his home this weekend, is being granted more leave from hospital by his doctors.

Assistant headteacher Bob James said: "Hopefully, if all goes well, he will be home for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. It should be good for him but his family will just have to stop him escaping down to the pub!

"At the weekend he had a great time and didn't want to go back to hospital," he added.

Mr Young will spend the time with his parents, sister and girlfriend Louise, also a teacher at the school, at his St Peter's home.

His pelvis is still healing but he is walking, mostly un-aided, around the hospital and getting to know all the other staff and patients.

He is also still waiting to be moved to a neurological unit at Moseley Hall Hospital in Birmingham when a space becomes free.

Mr James added: "He does still have a way to go. But he is doing really well.

"Somebody said to me the other day it's almost a miracle that he survived but I stopped them and told them it was one. Everything just went right for him."

Mr Young was driving his red Ford Ka home on the Droitwich to Hanbury Road in October when it was in collision with a green Toyota Land Cruiser.

Members of the Mercia Accident Rescue Service, which is based in Bromsgrove, were very close to hand and were able to give him roadside care.

The school is now busy fund-raising for the group, and hopes to hold a disco in the new year to raise extra cash for it.