A disabled Shropshire woman has launched a multi-million pound claim against the driver responsible for the crash which led to her injuries.

On Wah Tsang suffered serious spinal injuries in the three-car crash more than two years ago. She is now wheelchair-bound and will require specialist care and medical treatment for the remainder of her life.

The 38-year-old lives in a specialist house in Harlech Road, Oswestry, run by Transhouse. The charity assists seriously injured people in learning to adapt and live with their injuries.

Miss Tsang said: “I remember waking up in the car and all of the other passengers around me were screaming. I was unable to move my legs and closed my eyes to avoid panicking.”

Miss Tsang was airlifted to Birmingham’s Selly Oak Hospital following the smash, and later transferred to the Midlands Centre for Spinal Injuries at the Orthopaedic Hospital in Gobowen, where she remained for several months.

She said: “For a long time I thought I would be better off dead. I was worried about how I’d cope with the effects of my injuries.

“I would give back everything just to have my old life again. I realise this won’t happen and the compensation I am fighting for is necessary to allow me to live as full a life as possible.”

Miss Tsang, whose family live in Birmingham, was a rear seat passenger in a Renault Megane car which was in a queue of stationary traffic on the M6 near Cannock on November 12, 2006, when the crash happened.

Christopher Moogan, of Hayfield Road, Woolston, Warrington, drove his BMW into the rear of her vehicle.

Moogan, 36, was convicted of driving with excess alcohol and dangerous driving and sentenced to four months jail suspended for two years, banned from driving for two years and ordered to carry out community service.

Warren Maxwell, Miss Tsang’s solicitor, from Stewarts Law LLP, said his firm had already succeeded in securing interim funds sufficient for Miss Tsang to purchase and adapt a suitable property and vehicle as well as meet her daily care costs. But her case was unlikely to be resolved until 2010.

By Suzanne Roberts