Commonwealth medallist Stephanie Inglis has interacted with her parents for the first time after a near-fatal motorbike crash.

The Inverness judo star suffered severe head injuries when her skirt caught in the wheel of a motorcycle taxi in Vietnam and pulled her off on May 12.

The SaveSteph Facebook page reported on Tuesday evening that Ms Inglis had communicated with her parents by blinking when asked to by her mother Alison and by holding hands with her father Robert.

The 27-year-old Ms Inglis, who took silver at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, was originally given a 1% chance of survival after the accident and put into a medically-induced coma.

She was transferred to a hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, at the end of May where doctors began the process of waking her from the coma.

The SaveSteph update said: "Today has been filled with extremes of emotion for Stephanie, her parents and family.

"Upon arrival at the hospital this morning they found Stephanie with her left eye fully open and watching what was going on.

"When she saw Robert and Alison she started to move her face. Alison asked her Stephanie: 'If you can hear us and know we are here, blink', and she did.

"Alison told Robert to hold her hand and as he went to do so Stephanie lifted her hand for Robert to take it."

The Facebook post also said that after this, Ms Inglis "began to cry".

More than 7000 people have helped raise over £280,000 to pay for her medical treatment through an online crowdfunder, from an original target of £250,000.

Ms Inglis' Debenhams medical insurance had expired at the time of the accident.