'˜Miracle' Sompting teen injured in car accident celebrates A-level results
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Taz Moyo from Sompting achieved distinction star in his drama and music BTEC and an E in A-level photography.
He said: “I was very surprised and really proud.”
Taz suffered a serious head injury in the accident in July 2016.
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Hide AdAfter receiving life-saving treatment from South East Coast Ambulance Service, he was airlifted to Southampton General Hospital and spent the next 94 days on a ward.
Taz said: “It was a major step back.
“I was in a coma for three weeks. When I woke up, I didn’t know the reason I was there.
“I had a speech impediment, I couldn’t walk, I lost my balance. My memory was blurred. I couldn’t play the guitar.
“I had to relearn how to talk to people.”
But he soon recovered enough to return to the Sir Robert Woodard Academy in Lancing.
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Hide AdHe said: “It was definitely a struggle coming back into college.
“It was very hard.
“I had to quit English as I found it too hard.
“But with progress, I managed to be better at playing guitar, and I got into drama.”
Now, as his time at the school comes to an end, he said: “It’s strange, I’ve spent six years around here. I know all these people and have had good times and bad times.
“It’s coming to an end, it’s been a journey.”
He said he had ‘a lot of opportunities’ at the school – including recently playing the lead role in a production of Romeo and Juliet.
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Hide AdTaz will now be going to Northbrook College in Durrington to study music performance.
He is also keen to continue playing gigs with his band, Stone Lane, and said: “My dream is to play at the 02 arena.”
Taz’s mother Claire has previously described her son as ‘a miracle’.
She said: “The consultants said he probably wouldn’t walk or talk again and the worst may happen but I believed and hoped he would be ok.”