Man 'lucky to be alive' after scalp torn off in horror Audi crash in Ibiza

A man is 'lucky to be alive' after part of his scalp was torn from his skull in an horrific car crash in Ibiza.

HGV driver Vincent Brodie, 30, from Warrington, was seriously injured when a hire car he was travelling in crashed and flipped over three times down a road just hours after he arrived on the Mediterranean island.

While other passengers sustained only minor injuries Vincent, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, suffered a huge laceration to his right arm and a life-threatening tear to an artery in his thigh.

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He was rushed to hospital for urgent treatment - including three operations to repair his ripped-off scalp using skin grafts.

His mum Sarah, who flew to Ibiza the day after the September 8 crash occurred, said: "I can't remember getting there. I was in total panic mode. I was just thinking I could get there and he was going to be dead. I just kept thinking he couldn't be alive with the trauma he'd had.

"I was just in bits. I couldn't believe how ill he looked, just lying there in bed with his head in such pain. I couldn't wait to get him home."

Vincent, who drives for a living, was approved to fly home last week and was taken straight to Whiston Hospital, where he is now awaiting further plastic surgery and remains unable to work, reports The Echo.

Meanwhile, Sarah said she has been desperately trying to get in touch with Europcar, the care hire company which provided the Audi her son was travelling in - as she claimed the airbags did not deploy as the car collided with another vehicle on the country road.

She said: "I just