A MAN is thanking the doctors who saved his 21-year-old brother's life after a multiple car crash left him "close to death".

Jason Rossiter's brother Joshua was on his way to work when he collided with a Mercedes at 60 miles an hour at a bend in the road on Doulting Hill, Somerset, on December 4, 2014.

A second car then collided with Joshua's car, sending it into a spin. The aspiring agricultural contractor had to be cut out of his car by fire fighters and was taken to the Royal United Hospital in Bath, where doctors gave him a 30 per cent chance of survival.

Joshua, then 20, had suffered a bleed to the brain, eight broken ribs, a shattered foot, a damaged artery, a split tongue and a broken collar bone amongst numerous other injuries.

Just hours later Joshua's brother and mother were flown by the Cleveland Police helicopter squad to Southmead Hospital in Bristol where he was being treated.

Joshua said: "I just remember waking up about ten days later and being shocked to see that I was in the hospital. Then I saw my brother and my mum were by my side and that helped calm me down."

Mr Rossiter, 27, from Stockton, said: "I was in complete shock when I went to see him. Seeing him tied up to all the machines and seeing the state his face and body was in, my initial reaction was ‘Is he going to pull through this?’"

Mr Rossiter revealed that three days after the crash his brother's blood pressure dropped to such a low level that doctors woke him and his mother at 1.30am telling them to "expect the worst".

However Joshua pulled through, spending a month in Southmead Hospital where he underwent life-saving surgeries for his broker femur and shattered foot and two skin transplants to repair his knee.

A year on Joshua is living with his mother in Stockton and struggles with walking - but Mr Rossiter has dubbed his overall recovery "miraculous".

Mr Rossiter said: "I have never seen anyone to be so close to death and to recover as quickly as he did. I think that’s pretty much all down to the hospital staff that helped to save my brother."

He has set up a crowdfunding page, alongside plans for a sponsored walk in Stockton and cake sales in Somerset to thank everyone that helped his brother.

All proceeds will be donated to Royal United Hospital, the Cleveland Police helicopter squad and Southmead Hospital.

To donate visit https://www.gofundme.com/slendermansaviours