A young motorcyclist said his mum received a phone call "she never wants again" following a crash.
Louis Wood, from Huyton, was riding home on his motorbike when he was involved in a crash with a car on Queens Drive near its junction with Stanley park Avenue North on Monday December 13 at 4.15pm.
The 17-year-old damaged his ankle following the incident and is going in for an operation on Saturday at Aintree Hospital.
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But now, the teenager and his mum Tracy want to thank the kind strangers who stopped and helped Louis as he lay on the floor waiting for an ambulance.
Louis said the strangers had to call his mum about what happened and he said it was a call "she never wants" again.
Speaking to the ECHO, Louis said how people stopped and helped: "It was in the middle of a main junction and there was a lot of people who drove over and blocked the road.
"They blocked the cars and called an ambulance and were reassuring me.
"There were cars whizzing past me and beeping but they were keeping me safe.
"They were telling me 'you're going to be alright' and they rang my mum because I couldn't move.
"Apparently when I hit the floor I got straight back up, but then fell down again, I couldn't move because my ankle was hurting that bad."
Tracy said she has managed to thank one woman who was a first aider at the scene, who rang her to tell her what happened.
But Louis and his mum want to find others who also helped to say thank you.
In a Facebook post, Tracy said there was a man who called her and told her where Louis was and also helped keep her son calm.
She added there were other people who held off traffic who she also wants to say thank you to.
Louis said he is still in pain and doctors said he was "extremely lucky", but the incident has pushed his apprenticeship back as a mechanic at Audi.
The teenager said: "It's still hurting, my whole body is hurting and like the whiplash and that, my ankles not great.
"My mum was saying it could have been a lot, lot worse.
"The doctors said I am extremely lucky to get out of it like I did because they said most people in that type of crash wouldn't have been able to survive it.
"My mum said she never wants to get that call again.
"It has set my whole apprenticeship back now, as I have been signed off work for a few months and I can't attend my training courses."
Louis also wanted to give a personal thank you to those who helped.
He said: "I want to say a massive thank you, it would have been a lot worse if they weren't there for me.
"They really helped me, they could have just carried on their day but they stopped and helped me out of their own time.
"They were all really nice people."
A spokesperson for Merseyside Police said: "We received a report of a collision involving a Ford Fiesta and a Keeway motorbike on Queens Drive near its junction with Stanley park Avenue North at 4.15pm on Monday 13 December.
"The rider of the motorbike, a 17-year-old male, sustained a leg injury and was taken to hospital for treatment before being discharged.
"The driver of the Fiesta, a woman in her 60s, stopped at the scene and is assisting police with enquiries."
