A woman who suffered a head injury in a car accident is calling on brain injury survivors to use a new website to get their voice heard.

Sam Jevon, a lifelong Enfield resident, was sitting in the passenger seat and not wearing a seatbelt when she was involved in a road accident in 2006.

She spent eight months in rehabilitation at Northwick Park hospital, in Harrow.

Writing on website Headway East London, which has launched a Who Are You Now? campaign to raise awareness of brain injury sufferers, Ms Jevon recalled the moments leading up to the crash.

She said: “All I remember is that I was going shopping at the time. I never got to go shopping!

“I was taken to the Royal Free Hospital. I was in a coma for a couple of months. I had a bolt coming out of my head.

“Because of the pressure, they had to take a bit of my skull out. I've got a titanium plate there now. It's a big plate - it covers quite a big area of my head.

“After my injury my dad was talking to my doctor about whether I'd make it. The doctor said ‘If anyone will, she will.’ I've always been determined.”

Recent figures show that 1,612 people in Enfield were admitted to hospital with acquired brain injuries in 2014.

London hospital admissions for brain injuries has gone up by 17 per cent since 2006.

Ms Jevon joking writes that the crash has “done her a favour”.

She said: “The accident has done me a favour in a lot of ways because, before, the doctor told me my liver was dodgy.

“I don't drink at all now. I was very angry and short-tempered. I was awful. A lot of people at the pub say that I was a nightmare. I was angry about a lot of things. Anything, really. But now, the only thing that could upset me is if anything happened to anyone in my family.

“My personality has changed. I think I am very mellow now. I'm calm. In some ways the changes are a positive thing because I'm outgoing. I put myself out there and I don't care what people think.”

To find out more about the project, click here.