Sanitation worker who lost legs in crash vows to walk again

COBB COUNTY, Ga. — A sanitation worker who lost his legs after being hit by a distracted driver has vowed that he will walk again.
 
Viewers have asked about what happened to the 52-year-old man pinned between the car and his garbage truck which left him in a coma.

Channel 2's Ross Cavitt got a chance to watch Horace Walker take a few steps. %

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"Do you want to try one hand again or no hands?” Cavitt asked.

“I'll try no hands,” Horace Walker answered.

“I knew you were going to say that," Cavitt said.

Walker is in a hurry.

"I'm so overwhelmed. I know I can do a lot with these legs, and it’s just a great feeling knowing that I can walk again," Walker said.

He's come a long way since we were on Austell Road late last year.

Walker, a burly man in his early 50s, was working his sanitation truck when a distracted driver hit him -- the impact severing his legs above the knees and leaving Walker in a coma.

"I forgave and forget what I went through. It will always be in my mind, but my mindset is I want to progress and do more with my life now, I have a lot of challenges and I know I'm going to defeat them," Walker said.

Experts told Cavitt that Walker is ahead of schedule when it comes to learning to use his new computerized prosthetic legs.

He is determined to graduate to a more sophisticated set that will let him get up and walk without support.
 
His 4-year-old daughter, Ava, hovers around his therapy. She took Walker's accident and absence the hardest.  
 
"She was upset because daddy didn't have his legs. She said, 'Oh, my daddy doesn't have his legs,' but she said, 'You know, daddy when you get legs, you're going to be like Iron Giant.  And I promised her I'll be her Iron Giant," Walker said.
 
The driver who hit Walker pleaded guilty to several misdemeanors. 
 
His lawyer said legal settlements are helping to pay his huge medical bills.

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