Stag Party injury tourist safe "Back from the dead"

A distraught Middleton mother rushed to Tenerife to be with her only son after he was left for dead in a horrific hit-and-run smash.

Desperate to be beside him for possibly the last time, Lillian McLaughlin, aged 49, jumped on the first flight she could and dashed to the Canary Isalndsl – only to be told she couldn't see her son.

So Lillian waited, hysterical with grief and imagining the worst, in a foreign hospital unable to find out what was going on.

The family’s nightmare began when Carl Rigby, aged 29, of Wood Street, went abroad for a friend’s stag weekend.

On 9 May, he was crossing a road in Playa De Las Americas when he was hit head-on by a group of tourists driving a car.

Carl eventually arrived back in Middleton on 25 May, more than two weeks after the smash, and now faces a minimum of six weeks away from his job as a warehouseman on the Stakehill industrial estate while he recovers.

After hearing about Carl’s plight, I hope people realise the importance of having adequate insurance when they go away.