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A Merseyside couple travelled to a Thai hospital for hours to help a graduate who is fighting for her life after a horrific road accident.

Lucy Hill, from Bury, is in desperate need of blood transfusions after she was left suffering with anaemia following surgery after a moped crash.

The 21-year-old suffered a broken pelvis and brain haemorrhage when a car collided with her moped in Bangkok on Saturday afternoon - just six days into her trip.

Family and friends have made a desperate international appeal to help find the ‘A-negative’ blood she needs.

Linda Thornton-Kirkpatrick, 48, and Sean Thornton, 47, who are originally from Ainsdale, are currently holidaying in Thailand and responded to the appeal.

Linda said: “We arrived in Chiang Mai last night but we didn’t have an internet connection until this morning. We saw the appeal for bloody for Lucy while we were eating our breakfast, so we left our food and went straight to the hospital.

“I knew I had a negative blood type, but Sean was unsure of his.

“My daughter is the same age as Lucy and I couldn’t even begin to imagine what her family and friends are going through.

“Because I’m on medication I wasn’t able to give blood, but luckily Sean’s was negative too, so he did.”

Linda and Sean took a tuk-tuk to the hospital and were joined by fellow travellers with negative blood types.

Dozens of people queued outside the Maharaja Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital from 6am this morning, two hours before it opened, to donate blood.

Dad Phil, 54, said his daughter is likely to need further surgery this week and will need more units of blood.

He said: “They managed to get another six units of her blood type this morning.

“Apparently they were queuing outside the hospital from 6am this morning hours before they were asked to arrive at 8.30am.”