Car crash survivor learns to walk again, becomes fitness ambassador after near-death experience
Jo Lines-MacKenzie05:00, May 03 2021 CHRISTEL YARDLEY/STUFF Doctors feared Tayla Holmes might never walk again after a near-fatal car crash seven years ago. Now she is an ambassador for Snap Fitness. Diamonds shimmer on Tayla Holmes’ ring finger as she talks, a symbol of love but also a testament to just how far the 23-year-old has come since a serious car crash turned her life upside down seven years ago. The then 17-year-old was driving to her Rukuhia home on a wet July afternoon in 2014 when her car's brakes locked on Airport Rd and she aquaplaned head-on into an oncoming vehicle. While...