A GRANDFATHER whose life was saved by a vicar during a narrowboat accident has told how he cried when they were reunited.
The Rev Dan Cant, who lost his right arm after a car crash in 2005, was having a barbecue when he heard James Christie scream as he was hit by a propeller after falling off a narrowboat.
He was about to be ripped apart by the propeller blades when Dan, who had been on a boat behind, managed to get on James's vessel and kill the engine.
James, 61, spent 10 weeks in hospital after the accident in 2020 but never met his rescuer again until they were reunited for an episode of The Woodland Workshop - in emotional scenes to be screened tonight on Quest.
Grandad James, a former HGV driver from Rushden, Northants, presents the priest with a gift on the show.
He says: "I just cried when I saw him. I told him I loved him. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for him."
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