A student who crashed his car and suffered concussion, temporarily lost his fluency in Welsh, leaving him cut off from friends and feeling like a “foreigner” at his Welsh-speaking university, while also enduring flashbacks, anxiety, and brain fog. Ellis Pears, 19, a law student at Aberystwyth University, said he was driving down a muddy country road in November 2024 when another car drove on to the wrong side of the road, forcing him to swerve and causing his car to flip over, leaving him