Monday, August 22, 2005

Scot in coma after tram accident in Poland

A SCOTS man is in a coma after he was hit by a tram during a stag party in Poland.

Michael Forrester, 32, was celebrating with pals in the city of Krakow when the accident happened last weekend.

Yesterday his fiancee, who is pregnant with his second child, was at his bedside in a specialist brain trauma unit.

Michael lives in Haddington, East Lothian. His parents William and Heather now live in Bakewell, Derbyshire.

They flew to Krakow with his sister Nicola, 33, this week as surgeons prepared for a life-or-death op. Michael's uncle Iain said: "We don't know much at this stage