Insurance wont pay for seriously injured Brit to fly home News Today
23.08.11
A HOLIDAY horror crash has left a British student seriously injured after he was knocked off a quad bike by a truck in Cyprus.
Kieron Keller was on holiday with friends when the accident happened in the evening on July 29 in Ayia Napa.
The 22-year-old from Walsall was knocked from his quad bike and stopped breathing. He was resuscitated by the ambulance crews on scene, but he had to be resuscitated again at hospital.
The former Birmingham University student, who had just finished his course in Sports Management, has been left with serious and possibly life-changing injuries.
He has spinal damage, broken ribs, a broken leg and has had his spleen removed. He had to undergo three operations in hospital.
Now his family are desperately trying to raise the money needed to get him home after his insurance company refused to pay the fees, claiming his insurance policy did not cover the use of quad bikes.
His mum Maxine Rochelle and aunt Amanda Kellar said they have been left in complete shock after the accident.
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