A DAD severed his windpipe with an angle grinder in a horrific DIY accident after losing control of the power tool.

Pals have dubbed Simon Glover, 50, "miracle man" after he came within millimetres of death while cutting bricks to widen the window frame at his home.

6 Simon Glover said he could feel the air escape from his windpipe after carving it open with the power tool Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

The diamond-tipped angle grinder got stuck in the brickwork, spun out of his hand and carved open his face, throat, arm and chest.

Simon has shared these sickening images of his horror injuries for the first time since the near-fatal accident in 2013.

The serrated blade severed his windpipe and Simon could feel the air escaping when he pressed his hands to the wound to stem the bleeding.

Simon said his son Gavin, 26, was woken by the sound of the angle grinder hitting the floor and rushed in to see "blood running along the walls".

The dad of four, from Northampton, was airlifted to University Hospital Coventry where surgeons reconstructed his windpipe and stapled his throat together in a six-hour operation.

6 The blade sliced through the dad-of-four's neck and came within millimetres of a vital artery Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

Simon, who is also dad to Ashley, 30, Justin, 33, and Liza, 34, spent five days in an induced coma but returned to his job as a print manager just a fortnight after surgery.

Speaking shortly after the fourth anniversary of the horror accident, he said: "The saw blade actually grazed my main artery and I was bleeding heavily.

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"I put my hand on my throat immediately. I thought I'd bleed to death.

"Luckily my brother was in the back garden and he raised the alarm.

"I managed to walk downstairs to open the door and let him in.

6 Simon's neck had to be stapled together after six hours of surgery to fix his severed throat Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

"I just sat on the stairs with my hand on my throat holding it together thinking 'maybe I will make it', because if I had cut my main artery I wouldn't have got down the stairs.

"I knew I had cut through my wind pipe because as I was breathing I could feel it on my hand.

"If the air ambulance hadn't been there I would probably have died.

6 Dad-of-four Simon with his wife Diane Glover Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

"When I got into the resuscitation unit at University Hospital Coventry I was told that the theatre was being prepped and it wouldn't be long before they could operate.

"All of a sudden I realised I couldn't breathe and as I choked, blood filled my oxygen mask and my lungs were also filling up with blood.

"All I could see were ten or so experience medical staff looking very worried as they realised what was happening.

6 The diamond-tipped blade also slashed open his face after it flipped back Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

"They grabbed the trolley and rushed me straight to the operating theatre.

"If I had been transferred in a land ambulance and this happened I would not have survived. My friends call me 'miracle man' because I did."

To thank the Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance Service, Simon has raised £2,500 - including competing in a sponsored triathlon just weeks after his rescue.

He said: "Telling people about how the air ambulance flew me to hospital made me realise what an important part it played in saving my life. 6 Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

"If it hadn't taken me to hospital so quickly and I was still in the back of a land ambulance when my lungs started to fill with blood then I hate to think what would have happened.

"We don't realise how easily and quickly things can go wrong and if services like the air ambulance didn't exist I wouldn't be here to tell my story."

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