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SAD Sophie Webster will be told she may never walk again *after a drug-fuelled car smash.

We can reveal the poor lass (Brooke Vincent, 20) will face life in a wheelchair when pal Ryan Connor crashes his car and leaves her for dead.


In horrific scenes to be screened next month, Ryan, high on cocaine, gets behind the wheel, loses control and crashes.

But instead of sticking around, the cowardly drug addict – played by Sol Heras, 25 – does a runner just as the emergency services arrive on the scene.


Weatherfield’s Ken Barlow (Bill Roache, 80) breaks the news to shocked punters in the Rovers Return. He then returns home to tell wife Deirdre (Anne Kirkbride, 58) and Tracy (Kate Ford, 34) who has been enjoying a romance with the local bad boy.


Sombre Ken tells them: “I bumped into Sally on the way back from the hospital. Sophie’s had an operation on her back.

“She’s awake but there’s a chance she’ll never walk again.”


When Deirdre asks what happened, he explains: “She was with Ryan.

“He was high on drugs, dodging cars on the road or something. According to Sally he ran off when the ambulance came.”


Ken fears for Tracy following her involvement with Ryan. He warns her: “You should cast him away without a second thought.”


Corrie insiders says this is going to be one of the biggest storylines of the aut*umn and the fallout will be felt for months.

Daily Star