Self-Knowledge

The hardest kind of knowledge to get:

Mr Hodgkiss's ordeal happened as he walked in Tibberton, Worcestershire, on Saturday.

He dropped his mobile from the railway bridge but, as he was looking for it, the train slammed into him.

He was airlifted to hospital and treated for arm injuries, a broken pelvis and ribs but discharged himself on Monday.

"I don't even have the phone – it's in A&E somewhere smashed into a million pieces," he added.

"I have been unbelievably lucky and I will never go near the railway lines again. I'm not a hero, I'm an idiot."