A Brit teen is fighting for her life in Turkey after being hit by a paraglider in a nightmare accident.
Lily Nichol from Newcastle was rushed to hospital with serious injuries after the crash, which occurred on the last day of the family holiday. The 15-year-old suffered severe injuries in the accident, including a bleed on her brain, a broken jaw and a possible broken back and will undergo more operations today.
Her devastated mum, Lyndsey, has launched a GoFundMe for the family who went abroad without travel insurance and now face thousands of pounds of hospital bills reports the Mirror.
Lyndsey wrote: “I’m in desperate need of help. I’m on a family holiday today with my two daughters, we were meant to fly home back to Newcastle today. We decided to go out for a nice last meal during which my 15 year old daughter has been in a really bad accident by a man paragliding.
“He’s landed on her while we were sat at our table. She is in intensive care with a broken jaw broken ribs, bleed on brain and possibly a broken back. Stupid me forgot to take out holiday insurance. So far the hospital bill is £7,000, that’s only for today’s treatment. She needs an operation on her jaw which is more money.
“My and my I have to pay for hotels and taxis to and from the hospital. Please even £1, I’m a desperate mam. I can’t lose my little girl. She had a stroke & was unconscious during this trauma. My baby girl is in a bad way. I just want to get her home.”
She added: “I thought she was dead, I thought she was dead, I was screaming I was like where’s the ambulance and I was like ‘Lily keep talking to us, keep talking to us’.
“I just remember Lily eating, biting into a slice of pizza and this paraglider just came from nowhere and just totally wiped her out over the table.
“She face-planted the table and we tried to get her up. Obviously she was unconscious and she had a stroke while she was down. I thought she was dead.”
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