Motorhead Guitarist Helps Accident Victim

Mötorhead guitarist Phil Campbell will join four other bands at a charity gig in Wales tonight (August 22) for a barman left blind and deaf after an horrific car accident.

21-year-old Nick Butcher, whose dad, Tim, works as a technician with Mötorhead , needed major reconstructive surgery to put 20 metal plates in his face after the head-on collision.

Commented Tim: "Nick is a real joker, full of life. He's still got his sense of humor but that's all he¹s got left. As a parent, it's awful to see. I think he's taken it better than I have."

Nick, a former Llanishen High School pupil, was with his girlfriend with their car was involved in the road smash.

The impact crushed his head, destroyed his nose, and fracturing his jaw and skull. He was in a coma at Swansea's Morriston Hospital for a month following the crash ten weeks ago.

He eventually woke but found his senses gone, and plans to become a catering manager over.

"Nick and his girlfriend were knocked unconscious," said Tim. "She woke and thought he was dead.

"We had been together in the morning and I had left to go to the Hammersmith Odeon in London for Mötorhead's 30th anniversary concert. The police called and said they weren¹t sure he would make it.

"He is now blind and deaf and has no feeling in his face or head. He has got brain damage and can speak but is a lot slower."

Nick, who once worked at Cardiff¹s Hanover Hotel, has just started physiotherapy and is allowed home from hospital at weekends.

Source: Motorhead