Scots teen left 'impaled' on garden face after horror bike fall

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A Scots teenage cyclist was left with horror injuries after colliding with a garden fence and becoming impaled on a post. Cole Cummings, aged 19, was cycling on a footpath near to his home in Coatbridge on March 19 when he smashed into the post from a wooden fence that was falling over into the street.The post plunged into Cole's chest, tearing a hole through his skin, before he was raced to Monkland's hospital in Airdrie.Speaking of the freak accident, Cole told the Daily Record: “I was just riding my bike along Kirkshaws Road.

It was a really sunny day and I didn’t see the fence sticking out.“I cycled right into it and one of the fence poles went through my chest.“It left a really deep hole in my chest.

I was raced up to the hospital in an ambulance straight away.”Cole spent a week in hospital and was transferred from Monklands to Wishaw General for an operation to treat his wound.Now the teen is hitting out at Clyde Valley Housing Association and claims they neglected to carry out repairs to the fence, resulting in the accident he says has caused him to lose out on a job opportunity.Cole said: "The fence leaning on to the path had already been reported to Clyde Valley, but they seemed to have no intention of fixing it."I was working at Muller Dairy in Bellshill at the time of my accident and I was set to get a full-time job after a trial period, but now that opportunity is gone because I've had to spend weeks stuck at home recovering from the injury."Cole is now back on his feet and able to leave the house and find work, but the youngster has been left frustrated by Clyde Valley Housing's lack of action over the incident and claims he has had no contact from them following his fall.He added: “The tenant with the