18 weeks after the serious accident she suffered in the Isle of Man TT, María Costello continues her recovery process. In all this time he has been transmitting some messages through his social networks, but now it was the first time that he has stood in front of the camera to tell first-hand about the situation he is going through.
He has done so from the hospital, where he continues to recover and adapt to his new life. It was now, a little over four months later, that Costello had the courage to speak: “I wasn’t in a situation where I could talk to you. Until now.”
And the injury report was chilling from the first moment: fractures in the back, arm, nose, eye socket, grade four liver laceration and, the most complex, a spinal cord injury at the level of the T5-T6 vertebrae that left her paralyzed from that point down.
The future of Costello’s recovery is up in the air
Costello is still continuing his recovery process and as is often the case with this type of injury, there are many unknowns about how his evolution will be. This is how she conveyed it herself: “Will I ride a motorcycle again? Will I finish that lap of the TT? I don’t know”. Even so, he recognizes that he will continue fighting to try to return to the world he likes.
For this, it is also counting on different aid and the GoFundMe campaign has managed to reach 311,692 pounds, about 367,000 euros at the exchange rate. There were also collaborations from active drivers such as Kyle Ryde and Josh Brookes, who managed to raise nearly 21,000 extra pounds.
María Costello’s accident in the TT, added to that of the Crowe brothers, made the Isle of Man TT rethink the future of sidecars. Although it seems that after the proposed technical changes it will be enough for this spectacular category to continue flying at ground level.
Meanwhile, Costello will continue working on a recovery whose outcome is still uncertain, but which will seek to advance as much as possible. A reminder of how relentless life is in general and motorcycling in particular, where in a second everything changes.
