A BRITISH car crash survivor has become the world’s first tetraplegic to take part in Tough Mudder after finishing the grueling 12-mile (19-km) course in a wheelchair he controls with his chin.

    Rob Camm was paralyzed in a car crash two years ago, which left him with no movement in his body from the neck down just a week before he was due to start university.

    Last month, the student became the first tetraplegic in the world who is reliant on a ventilator to learn how to walk again using an incredible robotic skeleton controlled by his thoughts.

    Now, the 21-year-old has taken part in the notorious Tough Mudder challenge — which is billed as “probably the toughest event on the planet” — in an off-road wheelchair set on top of a quad bike.

    The former rugby player, who lives with his family in Breadstone, Gloucester, said, “I wanted to do a Tough Mudder before the accident and still wanted to do it now.

    “I’ve got a wheelchair that’s capable of doing it, so I thought ‘why not?’ It’s a wheelchair set on top of a quad bike and I’ve not found anything that can stop it yet.

    “People think that someone in my position shouldn’t be doing what I’m doing, but I’m just going to prove them wrong.”

    Camm, who has just finished his first year studying philosophy and politics at the University of Bristol, was joined at Tough Mudder in the Cotswolds by a team of his friends and family.

    He completed the challenge to raise money for SpecialEffect, a charity that has provided technology to help him adjust to life after the accident.(SD-Agencies)