Being in a serious collision can change a person's life in an instant.
Victims of crashes often face long and difficult recoveries, fraught with frustration.
Logan Quatember, 11, was in a Jeep when it collided with a semi-truck at Sage Creek and Lagimodiere boulevards in February 2015.
He spent 12 days in a coma and suffered two brain injuries.
Almost three years ago, 31-year-old and father of two Paul Neufeld escaped a high speed head-on highway crash on Highway 44 near Garson.
Both Quatember and Neufeld said they focus on important parts of their life as motivation to recover.
For Logan, that was dancing ballet. For Paul – being an active father.
Doctors said the victims who have the best recoveries often have a motivation to get back to normal.
"(If ) you need to go to rehab to improve you're muscle function, the patient who is motivated will try and when it hurts, when it's difficult, will push themselves harder so they are likely to get better," said Dr. Perry Gray, an ICU physician and chief medical officer with the Health Sciences Centre.
According to Manitoba Public Insurance, 17,000 Manitobans are injured in crashes every year.
