Thread: Brit woman's desperate bid to save her legs after Phuket crash

Originally Posted by rickschoppers

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Originally Posted by rickschoppers

The first thing that should of been done was to transport her back to the UK.

I dunno how you work that out when her legs were smashed to bits and she's had to have several blood transfusions with a rare blood group.

Dillinger, there are patient's transferred all around the world by a number of well prepared medical teams. Surely it would have cost much less than £400,000.

The cost to medevac depends on many factors but average costs seem to fall, typically, within £25,000 to £60,000.

If the poor girl had been German she would have been medevac'd long ago.

my understanding is that national german and french health insurance schemes covers them for treatment abroad, even when on extended stays.

I would think Thailand negotiates hospital bills all the time. If it is like several western countries, it is a matter of meeting with the hospital CFO and negotiating. One of my fishing buddies was a CFO of several hospitals and we talked many times about how he would slash bills, BUT, only if they asked.

I would be willing to bet this inflated hospital bill will be reduced dramatically.

Originally Posted by Luigi

Hit by a taxi driver that feel asleep while driving.

Yet she has to pay.


Something wrong with that scenario.

Err, assuming he had no insurance or the insurance was capped at the usual Thai level of 100,000 baht, who else would pay? Santa Claus, the pixies evidently playing at the bottom of your soi, the local temple?

If she was a Chinese tourist and the accident had been recorded and put up on Youtube and it had gone "viral", then it may have precipitated intervention by the government anxious to demonstrate Thainess. But she isn't, and it wasn't, so there it is.

Adam Pickle's air ambulance cost 68,000 pounds to get him home. The total cost of his treatment was 130k and that involved brain surgeons

That 400,000 pound figure you have is what the family have been told they could pay, but it doesn't state the source or for how long she'd need to be in a private hospital or intensive care to accumulate that.

Reading this she'd have to be in intensive care for 200 days to make a 400k bill.

Adam Pickles' 'signs of recovery' after Thailand attack - BBC News

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

Originally Posted by Luigi

Hit by a taxi driver that feel asleep while driving.

Yet she has to pay.


Something wrong with that scenario.

Err, assuming he had no insurance or the insurance was capped at the usual Thai level of 100,000 baht, who else would pay? Santa Claus, the pixies evidently playing at the bottom of your soi, the local temple?

The Taxi Association should be forced to have a fund where upon incidents caused solely by their licensed drivers, that exceed the insurance policy, would be paid from.

These social media begging bowls make Thailand look like the crminals
Like the sensational UK headlines for this very case.

Nothing about her own ignorance and stupidity

^^I rather think your cock is doing the talking there.

No surprise, eh?

Originally Posted by DJ Pat

Nothing about her own ignorance and stupidity

Bit harsh.....

Originally Posted by Dillinger

^^ so now you sail the high seas alone........you must be a fukkin good swimmer L@F

Swimming captain at school. Swam for Kent youth team a few times. Thanks for noticing.

And WTFhas that got to do with a crashing bikes on Phuket without adequate insurance. She has a degree ffs

Originally Posted by Luigi

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

Originally Posted by Luigi

Hit by a taxi driver that feel asleep while driving.

Yet she has to pay.


Something wrong with that scenario.

Err, assuming he had no insurance or the insurance was capped at the usual Thai level of 100,000 baht, who else would pay? Santa Claus, the pixies evidently playing at the bottom of your soi, the local temple?

The Taxi Association should be forced to have a fund where upon incidents caused solely by their licensed drivers, that exceed the insurance policy, would be paid from.

It's a cheap, lawless developing country. Part of the reason people visit, for an experience. That sort of thing probably exists in Singapore. Horses for courses.

Originally Posted by Lostandfound

She has a degree ffs

Terry hasn't got a degree, you don't don't see him pissin around on motorbikes in a country where 80 % of road deaths are motorcyclists.

Terry has an O Level grade C in Woodwork from 1979. He nailed six bits of wood together to make a chair before setting it alight.

Academically it's worth the same as a modern UK 2.1 degree.

^ So, terry's smarter than the average Brit?...

No he's as intelligent as the average Brit.

Terry is average.

Graduate left with £35,000 hospital bill

The family of a Welsh backpacker who was involved in a moped crash on a dream trip around Thailand has been left with a massive hospital bill.

Accountancy graduate Tasha Hutchinson, 24, of Maesteg , was on a six-month adventure around the country when the moped she was on was hit by a taxi driver who fell asleep at the wheel.

She was left with horrific leg injuries and because she had forgotten to get medical insurance, she and her family face a huge bill.

Tasha flew home earlier this week, but her parents have been left with credit card bills of £35,000 after forking out for flights, knee operations, painkillers and skin grafts, the Daily Mail reported .

She had to have eight operations, four of which were within a two week period and she has been told that she may not walk for another nine months.

Related: Woman's desperate bid to save use of her legs after horror crash during six-month Thailand adventure

Her mother, Michelle Lucas, 46, told the Daily Mail: "It's every parent's worst nightmare.

"Natasha's completely devastated. She set out for the adventure of a lifetime, and ended up nearly losing her leg thousands of miles from home.

"It's so dangerous - Brits go to Thailand and think nothing of jumping on mopeds and doing things they'd never do at home."

Last month, the social worker and her police officer husband Richard spent £2,000 on return flights to Thailand to be by their daughter's side and pay for her treatment.

Mrs Lucas said: "I couldn't bear the thought of my daughter being in pain so far from home.

"I knew how scared she'd be, and was determined to pay for whatever treatment she needed. Seeing her in that hospital bed with her wounds wrapped in bandages, I burst into tears.

They also had to pay another £3,000 for flights back to the UK, travelling with her daughter in first class as Natasha was too frail to fly in economy.

Mrs Lucas said: "On the one hand I was furious that she'd been so naïve to not pay for insurance - but then, she was so excited before she set off she could easily have forgotten.

"That's when we knew she was in serious trouble. She was so excited that she must have just forgotten. Or maybe she thought nothing bad would ever happen to her. This was her gap-year between graduating and getting a job, and she couldn't wait to let her hair down."

Miss Hutchinson's friend Kirsty Purcell, 24, has created a fundraising page to help the family scrape back some of the money.

It has so far raised more than £8,000.

Mrs Lucas said: "We're in a desperate situation and hope that people will sympathise with the situation.

"It's cost an arm and a leg and Natasha has a long recovery ahead of her. But as long as she is safe, that's all that matters."

Graduate left with £35,000 bill after horrific injuries in Thailand moped crash - Wales Online

It's a year's salary. She could be dead. Miserable whinging buggers.

Tough crowd this one.
My sympathies are with the girl and family.

We have all taken risks while we were young. The costs will be forgotten, the after effects on this poor girls life will not.

Good on you. Will you be sending some money? I think that's what she is after rather than actual sympathy.

Mrs Lucas said: "We're in a desperate situation and hope that people will sympathise with the situation.

Originally Posted by Hans Mann

Mrs Lucas said: "It's cost an arm and a leg"

Not a very good analogy. Awful thing to happen anyway- and the Hospital bill is negotiable.

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Adam Pickle's air ambulance cost 68,000 pounds to get him home. The total cost of his treatment was 130k and that involved brain surgeons

That 400,000 pound figure you have is what the family have been told they could pay, but it doesn't state the source or for how long she'd need to be in a private hospital or intensive care to accumulate that.

Reading this she'd have to be in intensive care for 200 days to make a 400k bill

Personally, I think social media is a load of bollocks.

CROWD FUNDING:

I'd never give a penny to some stupid cvnt trying to fund some ultimately pointless and selfish shit from anonymous strangers because they're to lazy to do it themselves.

But crowd funding for this sort of shit is what it was designed for (unknowingly).

I'd chip in a quid every time some poor fuccer landed in some serious shit.

400k (whatever denomination) is fvck all to a thoughtful planet - a few cents each.

And when we're in dire shit - that's when we need help.

Originally Posted by Iceman123

Originally Posted by Henrie

Good on you. Will you be sending some money? I think that's what she is after rather than actual sympathy.

I would have thought as part of your volunteer health research you would have been more constructive/sympathetic in your take on this.

No worries, I will guarantee to double any confirmed donation you care to make.
Win/ win eh?

Whose going to bother with travel insurance in the future if sympathy crowd funding has replaced it?

"It's so dangerous - Brits go to Thailand and think nothing of jumping on mopeds and doing things they'd never do at home."

This seems a remarkably well informed comment from the mother of someone who's had an accident there.

Originally Posted by Dapper

I'd chip in a quid every time some poor fuccer landed in some serious shit.

400k (whatever denomination) is fvck all to a thoughtful planet - a few cents each.

And when we're in dire shit - that's when we need help.

That's exactly what insurance is.

The trouble is everyone wants it for nothing.