Survivor of 2017 Amtrak crash defies doctors

Timothy Brodigan, 16 at time of derailment, was told he wouldn’t walk again.

DUPONT, Wash. — Timothy Brodigan does not remember the Dec. 18, 2017 Amtrak derailment, but he’ll never forget what doctors said after he survived the crash.

”What I got told was I would never walk, and that wasn’t by one doctor, that was probably, like, by four different doctors,” said Brodigan.

He is proving those doctors wrong. Brodigan, with the help of a walker, is able to walk today.

“I think when they said that, it really, really motivated me at first,” said Brodigan, “OK, well, I’m going to

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