British man, 27, dies on first day of Turkey holiday in horror moped crash
dailyrecord.co.ukThe heartbroken friends of a man who tragically died in a moped crash just hours after arriving in Turkey on his first foreign holiday are desperately fundraising to bring his body home.Kyle Barrow, 27 and his best mate Cal Junior, 24, arrived at their hotel in Antalya on Wednesday morning and got ready for a "day of adventures", the Mirror reports.
The pair, from Oldham, hired two mopeds and headed to the beach for jet skiing and parasailing.At lunchtime, they hopped back on their scooters and were on their way back to the resort when tragedy struck.
Just moments away from their hotel, Cal realised that his Kyle was no longer behind him - and he turned to see that his moped had crashed, leaving Kyle in a pool of blood in the middle of the road.Speaking from Turkey, Cal explained: “Kyle’s moped was on the side of the road.
I grabbed him, screaming, taking him on to the grass, as there were still cars going past. I held him, I was kissing him, screaming at him, with blood all over me.“He was looking at me and smiling and then he went cold and I just knew.”Kyle was rushed to hospital, but was sadly declared dead shortly after arriving.
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