Czech crash victim wakes speaking English
Pastor Dale Morgan
Czech crash victim wakes speaking English*
By staff writers
September 14, 2007 10:25am
A CZECH speedway driver knocked unconscious in a crash stunned ambulance
drivers when he woke up speaking perfect English.
18-year-old Matej Kus was out cold for 45 minutes after the crash, but
when he woke up he conversed fluidly in English with paramedics, even
speaking in an English accent.
The teenager had just begun to study the language and his skills were
described by friends and team-mates as “basic at best”.
Peter Waite, the promoter for Kus's team, the Berwick Bandits, told the
Daily Mail: "I couldn't believe what I was hearing.
"It was in a really clear English accent, no dialect or anything.
Whatever happened in the crash must have rearranged things in his head.
"Before his crash Matej's use of the English language was broken, to put
it mildly.
"He was only just making a start on improving it and struggled to be
understood, but was keen to learn.
"Yet here we were at the ambulance door listening to Matej talking to
the medical staff in perfect English.
"Matej didn't have a clue who or where he was when he came round. He
didn't even know he was Czech.
"It was unbelievable to hear him talk in unbroken English."
Unfortunately, the speedway driver's new found skills didn’t last and he
remembers nothing of the accident or the following two days. He is now
keen pursue studies in English.
He told the Daily Mail, through an interpreter: "It's unbelievable that
I was speaking English like that, especially without an accent.
"Hopefully I can pick English up over the winter for the start of next
season so I'll be able to speak it without someone having to hit me over
the head first.
"There must be plenty of the English language in my subconscious so
hopefully I'll be able to pick it up quickly next time."