Czech crash victim wakes up speaking perfect English

LONDON, England - Czech speedway driver Matej Kus,17, knocked unconscious in a crash stunned ambulance drivers when he woke up speaking perfect English.Kus was out cold for 45 minutes after the crash, but when he woke up he conversed fluidly in English with paramedics, even speaking in an English accent.

Kus had just begun to study the language and his skills were described by friends and team-mates as “basic at best”.

"I couldn't believe what I was hearing," Peter Waite, the promoter for Kus's team, the Berwick Bandits, told the Daily Mail.

"It was in a really clear English accent, no dialect or anything. Whatever happened in the crash must have rearranged things in his head," he said.

"Before his crash Matej's use of the English language was broken, to put it mildly.He was only just making a start on improving it and struggled to be understood, but was keen to learn," Waite said.

"Yet here we were at the ambulance door listening to Matej talking to the medical staff in perfect English.Matej didn't have a clue who or where he was when he came round. He didn't even know he was Czech," he said.

Unfortunately,Kus's new found skills didn’t last and he remembers nothing of the accident or the following two days. He is now keen pursue studies in English.

"It's unbelievable that I was speaking English like that, especially without an accent.Hopefully I can pick English up over the winter for the start of next season so I'll be able to speak it without someone having to hit me over the head first.There must be plenty of the English language in my subconscious so hopefully I'll be able to pick it up quickly next time," Kus told the Daily Mail, through an interpreter.

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