A disabled woman discovered her boyfriend had been seriously injured in a car crash moments after she got off the plane from India.

Janet Bell was horrified to read the text from Nick Rhodes on March 22, saying he had been "a bit" run over in Byron Road, Wealdstone, on his way to work.

Nick, 28, who has Multiple Sclerosis, was run over by a car coming out of Peel Road and airlifted to the Royal London Hospital with a fractured pelvis and wrist at around 7.30am.

Ms Bell, who had just returned from a trip to India where she was resolving her grandfather's estate, told of the moment she discovered what had happened.

She said: “I was terrified, because Nick didn’t answer the phone. I burst into tears, I was in absolute shock. 

“I knew he was alive but knew nothing of the extent of his injuries. I called his work and then the hospital.”

Janet uses a wheelchair owing to Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a collagen disorder causing her to have ten to 15 dislocations an hour leaving her in "constant agony".

She took an Uber to the hospital and passed the Byron Road scene on route - but had no idea that was where her boyfriend had been hit. 
She added: “When I saw him I just told him how much I loved him. I remember feeling this complete knowing that I want to be with him for the rest of my life.

“He was covered in bruises."

Janet said Nick slips in and out consciousness when she visits telling her she is "beautiful" when he is momentarily awake. 

The couple met on dating app last year. 

Nick, from Colliers Wood, is a data analyst and had gone to Janet’s house in Harrow the morning of the crash to surprise her with chocolates. 
He is a keen musician playing many instruments, but the piano is his ‘main love’. 

His left hand needs major surgery and he has lost some sensation in his fingers - but doctors managed to save the ring Janet gave him on his left hand. 

He will need physiotherapy and is expected to be released from hospital after Easter. 

Janet said: “He will likely be left with a degree of dysfunction in his hand. We're hoping for the best.”

Janet has been a volunteer for More Than Just A Choir mental health charity in Harrow for eight years.