Coronation Street actor Alan Halsall – who plays Tyrone Dobbs on the ITV soap – has broken his silence amid a very dramatic storyline which will see his character suffer lifechanging injuries

The family are worried

Coronation Street actor Alan Halsall has spoken out about his character Tyrone Dobbs’ lifechanging injuries. In shocking scenes on Monday night, Tyrone was the victim of the hit and run accident.

A car swerved to avoid hitting teenager Betsy Swain in Weatherfield precinct but instead Tyrone was hit and will face lasting damage to his spinal cord in a horrifying turn of events.

Tyrone’s family raced to his bedside, as doctors are set to tell him there is a long road of recovery after he suffered a severe final injury. Heartbreaking scenes, airing next week, will show Tyrone tell wife Fiz that he can’t feel or move his legs.

There’s some horrifying scenes set to air in the coming weeks

The charity, Spinal Injuries Association, are on board to help the soap portray the injuries most accurately. Speaking about the upcoming scenes, Alan said: “He waits until he is on his own with Fiz in the hospital as she doesn’t want to scare the others, particularly his girls. Once he starts to understand what’s going on with him and why he can’t feel his legs and what’s happened, he needs his family around him – because he really is a family man.

Tyrone’s road to recovery will be long

But I think overall there’s just this fear and trepidation of what this is going to bring and how his life is going to look after this accident. He will want to be strong for the family but that is going to be difficult.”

He added: “Initially, there is a concern that he might not get up at all. There’s real fear there, and not just fear from Tyrone but fear from Fiz and the kids and his mum and gran. They don’t know if he’ll walk again or how life is going to look going forward. But he knows they will all try to stick together and face what the future holds.”

Tyrone is concerned about what the future might hold for Fiz and the rest of the family.

“I think Tyrone obviously knows that a lot of the pressure will fall on Fiz – the kids, work, the house. He’s aware of that, and I don’t think he wants to add his stress onto her shoulders,” he explains.

“Tyrone always has good intentions and maybe doesn’t go about them in the right way, and I think even in this situation – as opposed to just talking to Fiz and trying to help, he goes about things in the way that he thinks best, trying to shield them from what is happening when he should be honest about how he feels.”