A 15-year-old British girl is fighting for her life after a paraglider crashed onto her during a family holiday in Turkey.
Lily Nichol, from Durham, was having lunch when the freak accident occurred on the final day of her vacation.
Witnesses feared the teenager had been killed by the impact. A fundraising appeal has now been launched to support her family.
Mother Lyndsey Logan told The Sun that she was on holiday with Lily and her elder daughter Megan, 19, when the incident happened.
“We were meant to fly home at 7.30pm, so today we went down for our last lunch together, having nice English food,” Ms Logan told the Sun.
“I just remember Lily just 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.
“So I pulled her, we tried, everyone pulled her back onto her side and her eye was all gashed open.”
The family are needing to pay £7,000 in hospital fees which could rise.
The GoFundMe campaign, which began this week, has now raised more than £6,000.
Ms Logan added: "The hospital told us that she’s got a bleed on the brain. She’s got a broken jaw, but she’s broken the bone in her jaw.
“She’s possibly got a broken back, and she’s got broken ribs. They’ve noticed that her tongue’s been split in half too. She’s in intensive care at the minute.”
She continued: “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’.”
A UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office spokesperson said: “We are providing support to a British girl and her family following an accident in Turkey.”
