A man, already seriously injured following a jet-ski accident, has told of the moment he expected to die in a savage hurricane.

David Hainsworth, 24, was stranded in a Mexican hospital when 145mph winds ripped the roof off, leaving him and his brother ready for death.

"When me and my brother sat there in the middle of that hurricane we sent a text home saying we were going to die," said David, of Eldwick.

"I really thought something was going to come through the window and do for us. It was terrifying. We felt like sitting ducks there in the dark." Incredibly, when Hurricane Wilma had finished roaring through Cancun's roofless hospital, David and Lee, 29, were unscathed. "My brother was terrified during the hurricane. We both were, but I developed a mentality that if you are going to die, there's not a lot you can do about it," he said.

David, a lorry driver, still faced a battle for health following a jet-ski accident that left him in intensive care four days into his holiday.

As well as suffering five fractured vertebrae and five fractured ribs in the crash - the circumstances of which remain unclear - David developed pneumonia.

Then with the onset of Hurricane Wilma, hospital staff took him off intensive care and he endured two days without regular medical treatment until the storm passed.

The drama which began with the accident on October 7 eventually ended when David's insurers paid £40,000 for a jet to fly him back to Leeds Bradford.

David was jetted home on October 29. David was ferried straight to Leeds General Infirmary and was discharged two weeks ago. His insurers, Inter Group, confirmed they spent £70,000 on his case.

"I've got to hand it to the insurance people who took care of things," he said.

David and his family, including parents Allan and Maureen, face international phone bills totalling around £1,500 which mounted up during the two week ordeal.