Shropshire's Victoria and Lenny on road to recovery after both broke backs in crash

Lenny Labrador and owner Victoria March have been all over the UK and Europe to try to recover from the crash that left both of them with breaks in their backs.

The crash happened two years ago in Attleborough, Norfolk, where Victoria, 33, lived with her parents at the time.

Victoria, who now lives in from Benthall, near Ironbridge, was driving when she lost control of the car and hit a bank, where the car overturned.

She was left with a break to her spine and Lenny's back was also broken.

Victoria is now back on her feet – and Lenny has been given a special set of wheels to help him walk again. Victoria said: "I was driving along a road I had driven down a hundred times before when the back end of my car started to give way. When that happened we just crashed.

"Because of all the chaos, Lenny had got out of the car because he was so stressed and afraid. I fumbled around to undo my seatbelt and tried to climb out of the car upside down to run after him and get him.

"It felt like a lifetime that we were waiting for the ambulance to turn up, but when it did, they put me in the back and tried to call for an emergency vet for Lenny.

"They couldn't get a vet out so I told them to take Lenny in the ambulance to the vet, and I would wait to go to the hospital."

Victoria, a housing manager, did not get her own injury checked until two weeks later, by which time it had healed into a fracture. When she was referred for physiotherapy she decided to go through it side-by-side with Lenny.

"I needed physiotherapy, and so did Len, so that's where the idea of us both attending classes together came from.

"We were there side by side and started the healing and recovery process as a team."

Despite numerous treatments, Victoria still needs to raise thousands of pounds to help Lenny get back on all fours.

• She has set up a funding page – www.gofundme.com/vw8ykk – so that he can finally walk again.