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Ozzy crash: first picture

Evening Standard Last updated at 00:00am on 20.02.04

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Ozzy Osbourne: cheated death

TV footage of Ozzy Osbourne being brought back from the dead has been screened for the first time.

He is seen getting the kiss of life from his bodyguard seconds after his horrific quad bike crash. Osbourne's wife Sharon said the prompt action of the minder, Sam Ruston, saved his life.

The crash happened in December, during filming for the MTV show The Osbournes, which stars the couple and their children, Kelly and Jack.

The cameraman is heard saying, "Oh my God!" on the film. The quad bike is a few feet way, skid marks etched in the grass.

The footage was broadcast for the first time in America last night. Osbourne and Sharon, 51, also gave an interview, with the Black Sabbath singer wearing a neck brace and saying he could not wait "to get out of this contraption".

After the accident at his �3 million Buckinghamshire estate, Osbourne, 55, had emergency surgery and spent two weeks in intensive care. He broke his collarbone, eight ribs and a vertebra in his neck. Full recovery will take another four months.

Mr Ruston, 44, said: "I see the bike hit some berms [ridges of earth] and it starts to bounce, and Ozzy's holding on. But the back end of the bike comes up, throwing him forward and over the handlebars."

He saw the bike land on top of the star. "As the bike's tumbling and he's tumbling, he somehow gets entangled in the bike, and he's rolling with the bike," he added. "I turned him over and I put my head on his chest, and I hear - no breath, no heartbeat, nothing."

Osbourne said he has "no memory" of being revived twice. Mr Ruston said he tilted Osbourne's head back and pinched his nose, adding: "He had a lot of blood and saliva. His tongue had fallen deep inside his throat, so I cleared it with my finger, and I remember breathing in his mouth, four short breaths."

When Osbourne stopped breathing again, Mr Ruston said he turned "the weirdest blue colour" before he revived him a second time.

Then the swearing came. "He told me, 'just get me the f**k up'," said Mr Ruston.