£109k car pranged by meet and greet driver
Owner returns to airport from holiday to find top model Range Rover ‘smashed to smithereens’
ACOUPLE returned from a holiday to find their Range Rover ‘smashed to smithereens’ after leaving the 4X4 with a Stockport airport ‘meet and greet’ firm.
Mike Savage and his wife left their vehicle with Meet And Greet Manchester Airport Parking before jetting off on holiday to Majorca on Friday, April 13.
On the day Mr Savage was due to fly back, he received a text from the firm informing him his car had been involved in a crash.
When the couple went to see the vehicle, they found it badly damaged at the front and back.
Bosses at the meet and greet firm, which is not affiliated to Manchester Airports Group, confirmed the Range Rover had been involved in a crash with two buses on the M60 on April 13.
Mr Savage, from Glossop, believes his vehicle must have been driven at speed to have ended up so badly damaged. The firm denies this. “We got back to their compound in Stockport and low and behold there it was all smashed up,” said Mr Savage.
“I know accidents happen but you don’t expect to come back and find your car smashed to smithereens. It was badly damaged at the front and the back.
“That can only have happened if it was being driven at speed. There’s been so much confusion about what actually happened. I don’t know who was even driving it at the time.”
A spokesman for Meet And Greet Manchester Airport Parking confirmed the vehicle had been involved with a road traffic collision with two buses on April 13.
But Mr Savage says he has been told his Range Rover, bought for £109,000, could be a writeoff and may have to go for salvage.
The 64-year-old, who paid £38 for the meet and greet service, added: “All they did was send me a copy of their insurance policy.”
The spokesman for the company said: “Mr Savage left his car with us on the 13th of April 2018. And while taking his vehicle to our compound site, his vehicle had a collision with the two buses, which the driver claims was not his fault.
“We also have proof of an email which was sent to our insurers on the 14th of April, which entailed the driver’s name and details, his statement of events along with the details of both of the bus drivers that were involved in the incident.
“We also have proof of mail exchanges between ourselves and Mr Savage and we answered all of his questions.”