As baby Adam Barnes whizzed around the room in his walker he seemed oblivious to the shocking scars to his head and the big heavy pot on his leg.

It was almost as if the life-threatening car crash had never happened just a week earlier.

The tot seemed as happy as any eight-month-old should be, but for the adults present in the room it was obvious that the youngster had had an incredibly luck escape - all thanks to have-a-go heroine Andrea Thompson.

Andrea, 43, gave Adam the gift of life on Friday, June 6. He stopped breathing after the car he was in was in a collision.

He suffered a fractured skull when he was catapulted out of his mum's arms and hit the windscreen and dashboard of the car.

His airway was blocked by blood, but by slapping him on the back Andrea, who dashed from her home in Brunswick Road, Pudsey, after hearing the collision, cleared his airways enabling him to breath again.

She was reunited with Adam and his mum, Sam Barnes, at the family home in Vermont Street, Stanningley, thanks to the Telegraph & Argus.

"He's been a lucky little chap. Someone up there was definitely looking after him that night," she said.

"If he had been an adult he would have been dead, without a shadow of a doubt."

Andrea, who trained for four years as a nurse but never entered the profession, said Adam was bleeding heavily on the night and she was amazed at how well he was looking.

"The scars are healing and they're healing well," she said.

"To be honest I was really concerned about his head because he was bleeding quite badly.

"My towel and the clothes I was wearing are testament to that."

Apart from getting tired quicker, mum Sam Barnes, 18, said Adam was coping wonderfully with his injuries.

"He gets mad with himself because he can't do stuff that he used to, like crawling and standing up," she said.

"He does get a little bit tired but apart from that he's nearly back to his happy self."

Sam said she was tremendously grateful for Andrea's help on the night, and dreads to think what would have happened if she hadn't of been there.

"I honestly don't know how it would have turned out," she said. "There were that many people there that anything could have happened, but Andrea was tremendous."