British holidaymaker has miracle escape after plunging 100ft down a ravine on a quad bike
A BRIT holidaymaker had a miracle escape after plunging 100ft down a ravine on a quad bike.
Gina Styles was catapulted into the air and smashed into trees and rocks before coming to a halt just inches from another steep drop.
The care worker was covered in blood after smashing her nose and suffering multiple fractures.
Gina, 48, said: “I wasn’t ready to die. I was in agony and still am but I was determined to survive. It wasn’t my time to go.”
The freak accident occurred on a two-week break in Malia, Crete, with pals Frank White, 32, and Gary Edwards, 50.
The trio pulled into a layby near the town of Neapoli when Gina hit a patch of gravel and skidded toward the ravine edge.
She said: “There was no barrier and I went straight over.
“I was still on the quad bike when it hit the first rock about 20ft down with such force that it flung me into the air.
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“I began hitting every tree and boulder. Every time I smashed into something, the pain was unbelievable. I was in agony.”
Engineer Gary, from Plymouth, climbed down to Gina until cops and paramedics arrived.
She was taken to hospital where X-rays confirmed two spinal fractures, a broken shoulder, wrist and nose.
She spent five days in hospital and the rest of her holiday in a wheelchair but hopes to fly home tomorrow.
Gina, of Maidstone, Kent, said; “I’m grateful to have survived and I’m never going on a quad bike again.”
