Group of lads on golf trip abandon their car and climb up steep motorway embankment to make their flight
Iain Milroy, 36, and his mates lugged their baggage through fields for over a mile to get their Jet2 flight
EIGHT golf buddies trapped in traffic abandoned their car and climbed a 20ft motorway embankment to make sure they made their flight.
Iain Milroy and pals then trudged a mile across fields with their luggage - and even tweeted Jet2 to ask them to hold the plane.
The group were heading to Birmingham Airport for a lads' golf holiday to Vilamoura, Portugal, last Wednesday when they got caught in queues on the M5 northbound near the M42 junction.
After waiting more than an hour for traffic to clear following a two-car crash, in which a woman in her twenties sadly died, account manager Iain, from Bromsgrove, Worcs, and his friends decided to take matters into their own hands – ditching the taxi they had paid for and hot footing it up an embankment.
One of the group checked to see if the embankment was climbable and then the golfers ran across the standstill motorway traffic and lugged their cases a mile to a road with no traffic.
They then called another taxi for the last 20 miles of the journey to make it to the airport 35 minutes later.
Miraculously, the friends made the 8.15am Jet2 flight with 40 minutes to spare before the plane left the runway and were able to enjoy their holiday without a hitch.
Iain, 36, said: "It was a bizarre few hours, but throughout it all we thought about the tragic accident.
"Jet2 were really helpful – we tweeted them saying ‘please hold the plane’ and we were greeted at check-in.
"My thoughts with the family and friends of the lady who lost her life in the incident."
Richard Milner, 40, another member of the group said the whole experience was like a comedy skit.
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Iain, Richard and their friends went on to enjoy five days golfing in the Algarve.
Richard said: "It was comedy gold. The embankment was so steep and most of us were in shorts and a couple in flip flops. It was freezing and I couldn't believe what we had to do.
"It was a horrible circumstance and obviously someone lost their life which was the worst of circumstances. It all felt very surreal."
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