HIS right arm is still in plaster and he has a small scar on his nose, plus a bit of bruising under the eyes.

But ten-year-old Robbie Street has made an amazing recovery since a quad biking accident in Turkey left him fighting for his life.

Robbie was with his dad Andy and step-mum Sharon when the crash happened in the resort of Bodrum during the half-term holiday.

He was rushed to hospital and spent three days in intensive care as doctors treated a variety of injuries, including bleeding on the brain.

Now Robbie is back home at Howards Mead, Pennington, and determined to put the accident behind him.

“I’m much better and don’t feel as if anything has happened to me,” he said.

“I was in a lot of pain to begin with but got better in hospital. The best thing about coming home was getting into my own bed – all the beds out there are hard.”

Robbie said he had never been on a quad bike before and only agreed to go on the trip because the alternatives were “boring”.

He and Sharon were riding the same machine. They were both badly injured and have been left with no memory of what happened.

Robbie’s mother Tina, 38, flew to Turkey the day after the accident but had to return home. She kept in constant contact with her son and was waiting to greet him when he flew back to Gatwick with his father and step-mum.

“He couldn’t wait to come home and I couldn’t wait to have him back,” she said. “We just sat in the car and cuddled.

“Robbie was badly hurt in the accident.

He had bleeding on the brain, his arm was broken in two places and he had two black eyes, a broken nose, and a fractured eye socket.

“But he’s doing really well and will soon be back to his normal self. The treatment he received in hospital was absolutely brilliant.”

Meanwhile, well-wishers in the Pennington area are continuing to raise thousands of pounds to pay for Robbie’s care in Turkey.

It was not until after the accident that his family discovered his treatment would not be covered by insurance because quad biking was classed as an “extreme sport”. The cost was initially put at £15,000 but the final figure is likely to be about £9,000.

Tina said: “The fundraising is going really well. I can’t thank them enough for everything they’ve done.”