A DISABLED ex-soldier says it’s a miracle he’s still alive after the “terrible state of the pavement” upended his mobility scooter into speeding traffic.

Former infantryman Simon Rogers, who served six years in the British Army, said cars had to swerve around him as he lay bruised in the middle of Upton’s Dorchester Road following the shock fall.

“If it wasn’t for all the people who came to help me so quickly I could easily have been killed,” he told the Daily Echo “Because the pavement is in such a bad state and parts of the camber are at such ridiculous angles, I just toppled over.

“I was still sat in the scooter in the middle of the road after I fell, but within seconds people came from nowhere to help.”

Simon, 41, from Upton, who started using a mobility scooter after suffering a head injury, blames Dorset County Council for failing to maintain the pavement.

The accident happened on the afternoon of June 21.

Dorset County Council highways manager Mike Westwood said: “Once we have been notified of a particular problem we will send someone out to take a look and make repairs as necessary. We hope Mr Rogers was not injured as a result of his fall.”