Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Other Local Resorts & Areas => Ovacik Discussion Forum => Topic started by: Daffodil on July 09, 2015, 12:52:47 PM
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We met a family whose son recently went headlong over a cliff whilst riding a quad bike. Luckily he was saved by falling 35ft down the cliff on to a ledge and although injured he was not seriously hurt. At the time his father thought he had lost him. The quad bike did fall and the family had to pay £3,500 to replace it before they went home.
It was also mentioned by a holiday rep that there a couple of fatalities earlier in the season but I am not sure about the details of that.
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Unfortunately there are quadbike accidents, some leading to fatalities or "life-changing injuries", every year and there will continue to be accidents all the time that inexperienced people are hiring them.
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The insurance only covers you if the vehicle is being ridden off road. Once it is on whatever constitutes a road then the insurance is not applicable.
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There was an accident a couple of months ago. A Father and Son on quads. The Father went over a cliff and down into the water. He was rescued and brought back up. He was on a life support machine in hospital and his wife found out that their travel insurance would not cover his medical charges. She was trying to raise £32,000 to medi-vac him back to the U.K. Unfortunately, he died.
Unless you take out Extreme Sports Insurance in the U.K. before you leave for your holidays you have no cover for quad bikes, jeep sarfaris, paragliding and in some cases horse riding. Even if you get insurance you have to comply with terms and conditions, so seat belts in jeep sarfaris and crash helmets for quads etc.,
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JH, is the figure you are quoting (£32k) for air ambulance and stretcher repatriation to UK from Turkey?
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So many people don,t think about there insurance when doing these things on holiday, think of the amount of people that hire or go on jeep safari,s throughout the season, yet hardly any think about being insured, yet we hear all the time about accidents!!! Always amazes me!!
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JH, is the figure you are quoting (£32k) for air ambulance and stretcher repatriation to UK from Turkey?
Yes, the man's wife wrote on one of the T.A. Forums that she had no idea that he was not covered by there normal travel insurance as it was buried in the small print. Her husband was on life support and in a coma so this was the cost of the medi vac from Turkey to the U.K. The family started a F.B. page asking for donations to bring this man home.
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Ah that is sad that the chap died I did not think it looked very hopeful as he went into cardiac arrest at the road side when they brought him up...I thouugt it was £130000 they were trying to raise to bring him back to the uk but that sounds like a lot so I coukd be wrong.,,
Totally agree with KKOB ( for a change ;)) re this will continue happening sadly...
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I'm finding it difficult to understand why the family (according to the OP) had to pay £3,500 for a new quad, surely that is the hire company's problem whether insured or not.
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The hire companies get the hirer to sign an agreement to say they will be responsible for any damage to the quad and will be liable to pay for those damages. I believe in most cases credit cards are swiped before the quad is handed over, so the company have a card to charge.
I recently read on T.A. of a guy who was charged £900 for damaged to a quad he hired.
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Hi Jacqui, what is TA please? I googled it but nothing came up. :( :(
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Trip Advisor
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It amazes me how many posts you see from people worried about coming to this part of the world simply because Turkey is next door to Syria, and even consider cancelling their holidays, yet then come and hire these machines when there are so many accidents.
We were up by Doctor Tolga's in Hisaronu a few days ago when a young girl was pretty much carried in by her friends, she'd come off one and had cuts/grazes all down her arm and leg on one side. (Fortunately she was more panicked and covered in blood than seriously hurt.) No helmet, had just thought it would be a laugh to hire one.....
Also read a post recently from someone whose uncle (I think) had used a false licence to hire one as he didn't hold the correct licence himself and was then incensed after it ended up over a cliff (luckily he didn't) and the hire company insisted he pay for the quad bike before they'd release his passport, which it seems they took presumably for some kind of security.
I don't know if this is the same case you mentioned,Fabian, but in my view they were perfectly entitled to expect the guy to pay for the quad as he'd given false information to hire it!
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Ref the guy who died. I found out on the net that his Mother paid for his medi-vac home. It was just under £20,000 and this was merely for the flight and no other medical charges etc., He died at home in Wales on 21st June. He was a 52 year old lorry driver. His wife and son did have a Facebook Page to raise £32,000 which was the total of all expenses and donations had been made.
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I remember the same sort of situation arising when a young man had an accident on a scooter. He sustained brain damage and the cost of flying him home with the necessary medical attendants amounted to over £40,000.
We were recently having a meal at the Seashell restaurant on the upper road in Ovacik and there were young women flying past on scooters wearing only t- -shirts and shorts with no helmets. I dread to think of the injuries that they would receive if they fell off or were in an accident.