The star was left paralysed from the waist down after a tragic accident in 2010
A Countryfile presenter is pregnant with her first child. Sammi Kinghorn launched her TV career in 2023 as a presenter on the BBC show. Sammi – who is now a British world champion wheelchair racer after a tragic accident in 2010 left her paralysed from the waist down – announced her happy news in a video on Instagram.
She shared a video in which she and partner Callum Aitken could be seen wearing caps saying ‘mum’ and ‘dad’ on it. As she threw her arms around Callum, Sammi held up a scan photo and a a pair of knitted baby boots. She captioned the post: “Half of me and half of you! We can’t wait to meet you in July.”
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Sammi recalled fearing for her life during an incident in 2010 that led to her being paralysed from the waist down. Sammi grew up on a farm in Scotland with her parents Neil and Elaine, and her brother.
During a day out playing on the farm with a friend, Sammi noticed Neil in his forklift. As reported by OK! magazine , she once recalled her dad “beeping his horn and laughing,” adding that the two pals jumped around nearby. She’s said to have then decided to climb on to part of the forklift, and has since said that she has “no idea” why she did it, though she’s speculated that it may have been to “show off” in front of other children in the area.
Neil is said to have not realised that Sammi had climbed onto the machinery and lowered the forklift bucket, that he’d been using to clear snow, down on top of her. Speaking to the Daily Mail, Sammi said she remembers feeling “pressure” on her neck and initially thought her dad was “joking” but had “gone a bit too far”.
The presenter said she then started “screaming,” adding that she felt her back “popping” and subsequently her “head was in [her] crotch”. Sammi told the outlet that she was “crushed right down” into a “tiny ball”.
She said: “My heart was thumping in my chest. Everything felt really slow and all I could hear was my breath. I remember closing my eyes and thinking ‘you’re going to die, and your Dad’s going to think it’s his fault’.”
Sammi said that upon opening her eyes, she couldn’t feel her legs although she could still move them, but then fell onto a pile of compacted snow. She said that she felt her legs “pulsing” and “twitching,” and said that was the last time she felt her legs.
She’s said to have been concerned that how it would impact her dad and is said to have lied to her parents, claiming she had slipped in the snow. Sammi said that after speaking to the doctor upon being taken to hospital, she ended up telling her parents what had happened as the injuries didn’t seem to match a fall.
Neil shared that he’d taught the dangers of farming machinery to his kids, including Sammy. Recounting the experience, he described feeling “numb” after hearing what had happened and said that the incident “blew [the family’s] life to pieces”.
Speaking to The Scotsman in 2014, Sammi said: “I thought I’d be in a bed forever. So, to then get into a wheelchair was amazing. I know it sounds strange, but I was so happy. Then to find I could actually compete in sport in my wheelchair has just been incredible. Sport has helped me hugely, helped me to really accept it.”
Sammi represented Team GB at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris and won a gold medal in the T53 Women’s 100m, and silver in the 400m, 800m, and 1,500m.
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