Mum-of-five Roxanne Bolton, 39, will need ‘several’ procedures after she was flung from a motorcycle in a horror collision in India, leaving her in ‘extreme pain’ with multiple injuries
Roxanne Bolton, 39, was caught in a horror collision while travelling in India(Image: Supplied)
A British mum is stranded in India after she was flung from a motorbike in a “head-on collision” and left with agonising injuries.
Roxanne Bolton, 39, will need “several” procedures before she can return home to the UK safely, Indian medics say. The mum-of-five, from Bude, Cornwall, was on the back of a motorcycle with a friend when they turned a corner and smashed straight into another motorcycle.
“She was flung from the back seat into a ditch,” Roxanne’s daughter Aleisha Petherick said. “When she looked at her leg it was just completely mis-formed. She was in agony.”
Roxanne had been travelling through India and Thailand since January – something she has always wanted to do – but was rushed to hospital in the early hours of March 29 when she was left badly injured from the crash.
Her daughters received the terrifying call saying she had been in an accident, and are now desperately trying to raise funds for their mum, who did not have insurance at the time, reports Cornwall Live.
Roxanne has already had one round of surgery, but medics say she will need several more procedures, with costs expected to be in the thousands. The mum was initially treated at a government hospital in Pondicherry before being transferred to the local Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS).
Aleisha said the owner of the hostel her mum was staying at generously paid for the initial cost of her treatment. The family have now launched a GoFundMe page in order to raise the money to pay him back.
“We’ve raised about £2,500 so far,” Aleisha said. “But the initial surgery is going to cost about £4,000. They’ve put pins into her hip because she’s got a fractured hip and her femur is completely snapped in two. She’s also got a metal cage around it, called an external fixator.
“She’s got that to keep the bone in place and she’s got to stay there for a month to recover from that. She’s then got at least three or four more surgeries to go after.”
The family is currently paying for a private nurse to stay in hospital with Roxanne so she can help translate and understand her treatment. While Aleisha and her sisters wish they were with her, they say she is being well looked after by the local community.
Aleisha, 20, said: “Mum was staying in Auroville, they are an amazing community and they have all come together to help and support her in any way they can. They have paid for some treatments when we can’t, they have made a group chat and organised a rota where they can put down when they are free to sit with mum so she’s never alone for a second.”
Asked how her mum is doing at the moment, she added: “She’s in extreme pain at the moment but she’s coping really well for someone in extreme pain. She’s stressed not knowing when she’s going to come home and she’s stressed not being understood. It’s very hard on her emotionally as well, but she’s pushing through it, which is really amazing.”
