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Teenager who lost legs walking again for Christmas

Ken Banks and Rachel Bell
BBC Scotland, Banff
Adam is now adapting to life with his new prosthetic legs

A promising teenage footballer who lost both lower legs after a car crash is home from hospital and walking again - in time for Christmas with his family.

Adam Golebiewski was 17 when he was injured in the crash in Macduff, Aberdeenshire, in September.

After undergoing the double amputation he celebrated his 18th birthday during his rehabilitation in hospital in Aberdeen, and was fitted for prosthetics.

He told BBC Scotland News he was "thankful and grateful" to have succeeded in his ambition to be home by Christmas.

Golebiewski family Teenage boy with two prosthetic legs below his knee walking out of hospital on a pair of crutches.Golebiewski family
Adam was recently able to walk out of hospital

Apprentice builder Adam, from Banff, was a enger in a car which crashed in Macduff's Union Road in the early hours of Sunday 8 September.

Police Scotland said a 19-year-old man was later charged in connection with the crash.

Three other teenagers were also injured in the crash.

Adam was taken to hospital, where his legs were amputated below the knee.

The football-obsessed goalkeeper - whose manager at junior side Deveronside described as having great potential - underwent intensive rehabilitation at Woodend Hospital in Aberdeen for about three months.

Older man smiling at camera with green T-shirt on with a large letter G on it it white with a yellow trim, with his arm round a smiling younger man - his son - smiling at camera and wearing a white T-shirt.
The teenager's dad - also Adam - said the family was glad to have him back home

The teenager, who is one of four siblings, has previously told BBC Scotland that he was just happy to be alive.

Now back home, he is going to the gym and looking at his future sporting options.

He described walking again and getting home as the "best feeling", adding that he had been "so excited" when he first stood up.

Adam said the first weekend back at home had been difficult because it was the first time he had sat and spoken properly about the accident.

"I just thought in my head: 'Why was it me? Why did it happen to a guy that was just trying to do well in life":[]}