A bus crash victim beat the odds to survive 96% burns and is now a physiotherapist helping others.
Catrin Pugh, 27, was given a one in 1,000 chance of survival after only the soles of her feet and patches on her scalp were left untouched by the inferno.
She spent 90 days in a coma and is believed to be the oldest person in the world to survive being so badly burned.
Her injuries came in 2013 when she was just 19 years old after she had finished doing a ski season in the French Alps.
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The coach she was travelling on burst into flames near Alpe d’Huez – killing driver Maurice Wrightson, 63, and leaving three British travellers seriously hurt.
Maurice sacrificed himself by driving into a mountainside to save his 51 passengers from plunging off.
Catrin, of Wrexham, North Wales, underwent more than 200 operations in eight months in hospital.
She has now followed her dreams of going to university at King’s College London to study physiotherapy.
Catrin said: “When I had my accident I didn’t think I’d graduate from university or even think I’d go to university.”
She had hours of physiotherapy and, inspired by her healthcare workers, she decided to enrol on an access course in bio-sciences before going to uni.
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Catrin said: “Physiotherapy was a great fit as I’d grown up being so active.
“Although the surgeons and nurses saved my life, my physios gave me my mobility, walking, my ability to use my hands, that made a massive difference.”
She has worked with the Katie Piper Foundation and the charity Changing Faces and modelled for beauty firm Avon.
Catrin said: “I’m working to change people’s minds to see that things like a scar or using a wheelchair makes you unique.
“That doesn’t mean different is a bad thing, if we don’t have difference in society, it’d be a very boring place.”
Parents Carl and Sara said they are “very proud” of their daughter.
Carl said: “She’s turned a negative into a positive.”
