Daily Mail: Fortunately he managed to take the full force of the impact on his chest, escaping catastrophic head injuries.
But the Cambridge graduate still suffered a ruptured spleen, torn liver, collapsed lungs and massive bruising.
Surgeons, who likened his injuries to those of a car crash victim, had to remove the spleen and he spent a month in a Bangkok hospital before he was well enough to return to his home near Wakefield, West Yorkshire.