British man breaks his neck falling out of a tree during French holiday – and is left with huge medical bills

A British man who broke his neck after falling from a tree while on holiday in France and could not walk, faced a huge medical bill because he did not have travel insurance.

London-based Guy Evans traveled to the Loire Valley with his brother Stan Evans on April 19 to visit his father who lives in France.

The next day Guy decided to help out in the garden and collect broken tree branches and climbed a ladder to pick them up.

After picking up two branches, the 30-year-old man reached out to pick up the third, but because he was overstretched, the branch broke and he fell from a height of 3 meters, landing on a stone wall.

The freelance copywriter was taken by ambulance to the hospital, where doctors discovered that her C6 vertebra, one of the vertebrae that runs towards the top of the spine, was fractured.

“Very fortunately, I didn’t cut the spinal cord, which apparently would have been more or less a curtain for me, so it’s still intact, which is the first positive news,” Guy said.

The day after the accident, Guy underwent a six-hour surgery; Doctors took bone from his left hip and reconstructed his C6 vertebra, then had a second surgery a week later.

Guy has since returned to the UK and continues to receive treatment at King’s College Hospital in Camberwell, while his family are still trying to raise money to cover his medical bills in France as he has no travel insurance.

Guy has since returned to the UK and continues to receive treatment at King’s College Hospital in Camberwell.

His younger brother, Robbie Evans, set up a GoFundMe to cover his treatment costs and help repatriate him to the UK, which has already raised more than £102,000.

Guy, from Camberwell, said: ‘I’m a stupid, stupid boy.

‘We launched this page and I think we hit the target in six hours, which is absolutely mind-blowing.’

According to the GoFundMe, some of the money will cover his repatriation, while the rest is needed to cover his medical expenses in France and will also go towards ‘supporting Guy’s long road to recovery and beyond, including finding him a suitable place to live if he does not fully recover’.

He added: ‘This process is unfortunately extremely expensive and we are asking for your support now to give him the best possible chance of recovery.

Guy, who cannot yet walk, has begun to regain some movement in his arms and hands.

He is currently undergoing rehabilitation in a South London hospital and is awaiting a place in a rehabilitation centre.

‘You always think this won’t happen to you,’ he said.