Grateful husband Maurice Glover has paid tribute to first responders who brought his wife back to life after her heart stopped as she drove back to her home near Market Drayton.

Myra Glover was brought back from death six times after suffering a heart attack at the wheel and crashing into a hedge.

She was driving her Peugeot car along a short cut in Baldwin’s Gate, Staffordshire, on her way home from a shopping trip in Newcastle-under-Lyme, when her heart stopped, causing her car to plough straight on, over a ditch and into a hedge.

Mr Glover said she had a “lifetime of luck” in that one afternoon, with community first responders nearby.

He said someone saw the crash happen last Thursday, saw Mrs Glover slumped over the wheel and immediately dialled 999.

Mr Glover, of St Mary’s Road, Loggerheads, near Market Drayton, said: “The second bit of good luck is that in Loggerheads, just up the road from where we live, was a first responder and again, as luck would have it, both he and his partner were in just having a break.”

Rocket

“They were having a mug of tea and the call came through so they were off down the road like a rocket and were on the scene extremely quickly, which has proved to be the thing that has saved her really.

“Of course it was 45 minutes they were working on her and in that period I’m told by the first responder who saved her life they brought her back from death six times, which I think is staggering.”

Mr Glover said his wife, 64, was now making a good recovery, but will have to have a defibrillator fitted before she is allowed home.

“I think she had a lifetime of luck in that one series of events,” said the 65-year-old.

“I had the amazing good fortune to meet the chap who saved my wife’s life. He lives just up the road from us.

“He said ‘I just got such a hell of a kick out of getting her back’ it was wonderful.”