‘Londoners lifted car off me with their bare hands’

Claire Pepper

Claire Pepper, 27, a fashion photographer from London, recalls pedalling away from work on her way home on Monday, November 11, but nothing of the next six hours.

"I don't remember getting as far as the road where the accident happened. I just remember waking up in hospital at about 3am."

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