Former footballer Clarke Carlisle improving after lorry crash
Former Premier League footballer Clarke Carlisle is now awake in hospital, nearly a month after he was seriously injured in a collision with a lorry.
Clarke Carlisle faces "long road to full recovery"
The family of former Leeds United and York City defender Clarke Carlisle has revealed he is now in a stable condition in hospital but faces "a long road to a full recovery." The ex-chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association suffered serious injuries when, as a pedestrian, he was involved in a collision with a lorry on the A64 near York on December 22.
It later emerged that just days before the crash he had been charged with a drink driving offence by the Metropolitan Police.
Tonight his family issued a statement through the PFA:
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