Heather Anne Mills, working as a volunteer in war-torn former Yugoslavia

Life changed forever for Heather Mills when she lost part of her leg in a horror accident at the age of 25. The life of the former model, ex-wife of The Beatles star Paul McCartney, now she with 55. Was walking through Kensington, London in August 1993 with her then-boyfriend, banker Raffaele Mincione, when disaster struck. As the pair crossed Kensington Road, she was knocked down by a police motorcycle responding to an emergency call.

Born 12 January 1968, is an English former model, businesswoman, and animal rights activist. Mills first came to public attention in 1993 when she was a model and was involved in a traffic collision with a police motorcycle in London. The accident resulted in the amputation of her left leg below the knee, but she continued to model using a prosthetic limb and later sold her story to the tabloid journal News of the World.

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Clocked in a staggering speed of 102.5mph (164.95 km/h) in Vars, southeast France, in 2015

The successful attempt by the former model and sports has finally been recognized in the Guinness Book of World Records. She became an amputee, she was working as a volunteer in war-torn former Yugoslavia. She used to drive trucks full of prosthetic limbs around the local villages – delivering them to the amputee victims of the local conflict and in some way trying to improve their lives – in the most appalling of circumstances.

At the age of 25, as the model that overcame adversity, which in turn put her in a position of responsibility, which she accepted, in order to further her work for her charities – including committing herself to producing state of the art prosthetic limbs – enabling amputees present and future to live more mobile lives, to dance, run and even ski and perform at the Paralympics.

In 1996, Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 28: Work with landmines and amputees

Soon after she returned from the then Yugoslavia in 1993, She suffered a well-publicised accident – being hit by a police motorcycle which resulted in the loss of her left leg, a crushed pelvis and a punctured lung, and, ironically, in her becoming an amputee – like those she had been seeking to help.

As her reputation and credibility were systematically destroyed through collusion between News Group and those previously close to her, the work the charity was doing was severely inhibited.

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