A 50-year-old Montreal woman says she’s lucky to be alive after hitting a pothole while cycling in the city last month — an accident that left her in a coma for a week.

On July 18, Mélanie Guindon was riding her bike southbound on Guy Street near downtown when one of her wheels got stuck in a deep pothole near the bike path just before the intersection with St-Jacques Street.

The impact sent the young grandmother of three flying over the handlebars, landing on her elbows and hitting her head. She was not wearing a helmet, an unfortunate choice she says she regrets.

A passerby called 911, and Guindon was taken by ambulance to the Montreal General Hospital, where she was placed in a medically induced coma twice due to the severity of her injuries. She says she suffered a severe head traum

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