Man left £30k car with Manchester Airport meet and greet - then received a surprising call from BMW

A man's £30,000 BMW was written off after it was crashed by Manchester Airport valet staff in a multi-storey car park.

Andrew Swindells, 47, handed over the keys to his BMW One Series after paying just short of £100 for the airport's valet-style 'meet and greet' parking service before jetting off to the US for a business trip.

But he told the M.E.N how the car's on-board telemetry system alerted him via his mobile phone to a 'serious collision' - as he was sat down having dinner in Chicago days later. Completely unaware of what was happening, he was then called by BMW to ask him if he was alright and tell him to pull over immediately.

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On arrival back to Manchester, father-of-two Andrew, from Widnes, Cheshire, said he was taken up to the top floor of a multi-story car park, where he saw the BMW crashed into a concrete bollard. He said the airport has now settled with his insurers. The airport, meanwhile, has also now apologised.

The car itself - bought second-hand by Andrew 12 months ago at three months-old - was left up on the car park for weeks because it couldn't be moved, he added. He was also critical of the level of customer service he got from the airport.

Andrew, an IT product manager who regularly flies abroad on business, likened the scenes at the airport to 'something out of Only Fools and Horses'.

He said: "It all happened at the end of January, but it has taken ages for the airport to sort the insurance out. It dragged on and on.

"It's valet parking and they move the car to another site on the airport. It ended up within the boundaries of the airport on the top storey of a seven-storey multi-storey.

"During