FAMILY and friends of a man who died one year after being involved in a car crash have paid tribute to a “larger than life character who would do anything for anyone.”
Ian Downton, of Malvern Road, near Powick, hit a tree while driving his Audi Quattro near Malvern Link and suffered multiple injuries.
The father-of-one was left with a hole in his oesophagus following the crash, and had to be fed through a tube.
He spent almost 12 months at Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham and went from about 14 stone to eight stone before he died as a result of his injuries on Thursday September 24.
His mother Ann Williams, of Rectory Road, Upton-upon-Severn, said her son never gave up fighting.
Mrs Williams, aged 71, added: “He would always say ‘I will fight this mum’.
“He lived for the day and was always the life and soul of anybody’s household - where he went he was well liked and loved.”
The inquest into Mr Downton’s death has been opened and adjourned by Worcestershire coroner Geraint Williams while further reports are carried out.
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