A BRIT girl is fighting for her life after a paraglider crash-landed on her while she ate lunch in Turkey.
Lily Nichol, 15, was at first thought to have been killed after the freak accident on the final day of her holiday with her family.
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Her devastated mum described the moment she thought her daughter “was dead” after the freak accident, which has left her girl in intensive care.
Lyndsey Logan, 39, from Durham, told The Sun: “It’s a mum’s worst nightmare.”
Lyndsey was in Turkey enjoying lunch on the final day of her holiday with her two girls Megan Nichol, 19, and Lily Nichol, 15, when her youngest daughter was “wiped out” by a paraglider at the table.
Lily, who was supposed to fly home with her family yesterday evening, remains in hospital after suffering several horrific injuries.
Distraught Lyndsey said: “We were meant to fly home at 7.30pm, so today we went down for our last lunch together, having nice English food.
“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 ambulance came, they took her away and we half had to go into the hotel, I got a passport to go to the hospital.”
But Lyndsey was unaware that their holiday did not include travel insurance – and when Lily arrived at the hospital, they were met with a massive bill.
The mum said: “We had to raise £7,000 to pay for what she’s had so far.
“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.”
Lyndsey admitted she can’t get the image of the accident out of her mind, as she feared for the worst.
She said: “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’.”
Lily was rushed to Letoon Hospital in Fethiye, Turkey, where she is being looked after by medics.
The mum-of-two was enraged after seeing the man who paraglided into her daughter allegedly joking around and drinking with friends, following her daughter’s near-death experience.
She called the police, but claims they did nothing to help.
Lyndsey continued: “Not one policeman has been to see me.
“I rang them and said I need the police here – I said the man who’s hurt my daughter, put her in hospital is in my hotel.
“And then the police hung up on us.”
The mum said she could end up with a bill between £30,000 and £40,000 for Lily’s hospital treatment, while also continuing to pay hotel costs to stay near her daughter.
Lynsey launched a GoFundMe yesterday, desperately appealing for funds to help her little girl, which had an “amazing” response as it raised over £2000 in the first few hours.
But her focus remains on her daughter, who she hopes will “pull through” after the horrific accident.
She said: “I just never want to go on holiday again I don’t think. I just want to wrap her round in cotton wool.
“Like, I just can’t get a face on my head. I thought he was dead. It’s a mum’s worst nightmare.”
A UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office spokesperson told The Sun: “We are providing support to a British girl and her family following an accident in Turkey.”