Tourist in huge debt after moped crash
A tourist who forgot to get travel insurance has been left with a £35,000 hospital bill after nearly losing a leg in a moped crash.
Natasha Hutchinson, 24, from Maesteg, Wales, was on the back of a rented moped in the popular beach resort Phuket, Thailand when they collided with a lorry and she fell off and crushed her leg.
She was left with a smashed kneecap, a broken femur, torn muscles, extensive blood and skin loss and septicaemia in her leg following the crash.
But the ensuing medical bills and travel expenses have left her parents tens of thousands of pounds in debt, reports the Daily Mail.
Wheelchair-bound Natasha was fit to fly home to the UK last week, but Thai medics warned she may not walk for another nine months.
Mrs Lucas told the Daily Mail: "On the one hand I was furious that she’d been so naïve to not pay for insurance – but then, she was so excited before she set off she could easily have forgotten.
"This was her gap-year between graduating and getting a job, and she couldn’t wait to let her hair down."
Miss Hutchinson’s friend Kirsty Purcell, 24, has created a fundraising page to help the family scrape back some of the money.
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