A woman who cancelled her gym membership after an horrific car crash has received letters from gym managers demanding payment of fees.

Kay Mellor phoned LA Fitness from her hospital bed following the accident in November which left her with almost a dozen broken bones and unable to walk.

Despite being unable to train and not visiting the gym in North Road, Brighton, since before the accident, Ms Mellor is still receiving letters asking for her monthly membership fee.

Ms Mellor, 32, said: "I phoned to cancel my membership at the end of November and paid the fee for December, giving the 30 days' notice requested by the club.

"The terms of the contract say if you have a doctor's certificate then the club will let you off the rest of your contract.

"But it keeps sending me letters asking for another £41. I felt quite hard done by in the first place having to pay for an extra month when I couldn't use the gym. Now it's just adding insult to injury.

"I can't imagine what will happen next and I've got no idea what I'm going to do.

"I suppose I'll just have to pay. It's not as if I can run away, is it?"

Ms Mellor, of The Crescent, Brighton, was walking along Lewes Road, outside Brighton University, last year when a car mounted the pavement and smashed into her.

She broke ten bones in the accident and spent three months in hospital recovering.

She said: "I was on my way to buy tea bags and a car came off the road.

"I remember seeing it come towards me and then lying under a hedge shouting for help.

"I had a broken shoulder, elbow, pelvis, femur, knee, tibia and fibula as well as three bones in my foot."

The accident left her unable to walk for several months and, although she was able to stop using a wheelchair three months ago, she is still undergoing treatment.

She received a seventh letter from the gym last week in which the amount being asked for had doubled.

Ms Mellor, who felt the gym had been unsupportive, said: "Now it wants another £40 for accrued costs.

"I really don't know what accrued costs are.

"When I joined, its advertising said it was the friendliest gym in town but now I am starting to think it is the greediest gym in town."

Ms Mellor, who was a Brighton University student until the accident, hopes to make a full recovery and return to finish her two-year MSc in internet application development but said she would not be returning to LA Fitness.

She added: "The university's got a gym so I'll probably just go there instead."

Carolyn Bull-Edwards, public relations manager at LA Fitness said: "It states in our contract that someone can cancel if they cannot use the facilities as long as they have a doctor's note.

"We didn't receive a doctor's note from Ms Mellor until March so she should have had a bill for £123 but as a gesture of goodwill we reduced this to £41.

"Credit control will write to Ms Mellor to waive the remaining payment but it is very clear in our contract you must have a doctor's certificate."