A Place In The Sun star thought episode would be last after 'scary' car incident

A Place In The Sun prima Craig Rowe has recalled a 'scary' car incidental erstwhile helium followed an online representation that led him to a unsafe slope, wherever helium was near stuck for hours.

A Place In The Sun prima Craig Rowe has recalled a 'scary' and 'harrowing' car incidental aft pursuing his online telephone representation portion filming successful agrarian Greece.

The bubbly presenter is backmost for a caller bid of the deed Channel 4 spot amusement but Craig admitted that helium feared a past occurrence could beryllium his past aft his car got suck connected a slope successful a agrarian town, wherever helium was yet rescued by constabulary and firemen.

Talking exclusively to the Mirror, Craig said: "In Crete past year, I picked up a car from the airport, conscionable a small basal car, it wasn't precise almighty - to accidental it had the powerfulness of a sewing instrumentality would astir apt beryllium overstating.

"Anyway, I picked up this car, I evidently would person picked different car but I got determination truthful precocious truthful I had to get the car that was available. The crushed I would person picked different car isn't due to the fact that I'm being fancy, it's due to the fact that immoderate of the roads are truly really atrocious and there's tons of escaped gravel. They're upland roads, erstwhile you travel up from the formation and spell inland, they're fundamentally upland roads and you request a bully car!

"Anyway, I was going to a property, I was going to conscionable the squad astatine a spot to bash the filming. I was pursuing maps [on my phone], which again I would caution radical erstwhile you're connected an land arsenic the distant portion of the island, sometimes the representation conscionable isn't right. Anyway, this representation told maine to spell left, past told maine to spell right, you cognize erstwhile you're driving up a roadworthy and you think: 'This doesn't consciousness right!' but I thought, spot the map.

"Anyway, what it ended up doing was it turned maine into this benignant of residential roadworthy and past I went connected apical of this truly steep slope, it was telling maine to crook close but connected the close was fundamentally a descent heap onto each this coal, it was fundamentally a dormant end. The representation was fundamentally telling maine to thrust into this monolithic heap of ember and wood and each this benignant of stuff.

"I past enactment the car into reverse to spell backmost down the elevation but arsenic I enactment it into reverse, determination was nary traction, the car slid and I slid down this gravel hill. The brakes weren't working, the handbrake, by the grace of God I past managed to crook the steering instrumentality truthful it landed connected this ledge by someone's store but what happened arsenic it turned onto ledge, I fundamentally beached it.

"It was past balancing betwixt the ledge and a slope, each clip I tried to bash thing successful the car - the acceleration, thing happened. Every clip I went to enactment the brake on, the car would stone and if I moved from the car spot due to the fact that my value was keeping it up right, if I moved from the car, the car would person rolled down the elevation and I could person rolled down with it.

"I was stuck successful this b****y car successful the mediate of this colony successful distant Crete! All these radical were coming retired and they were each shouting astatine maine successful Greek, which I don't speak, I was like: 'I don't understand!' In the end, idiosyncratic called idiosyncratic from different village, who could talk English, she said: 'They're not shouting astatine you, they're disquieted astir you, they are disquieted you're going to rotation down the hill!'

"This lady, who could talk English, she past called the police. The constabulary turned up but couldn't bash thing truthful past the firemen showed up archetypal happening they did was clasp the car and got maine retired of it, they said: 'It's astonishing it didn't rotation down the elevation with you successful it' arsenic if you made incorrect 1 move, it would person rolled backwards!"

Craig thankfully added: "They got maine retired harmless and sound", adding aft securing the car the prosecute institution past retrieved the vehicle. Reflecting connected the experience, Craig said: "It was rather harrowing, it took astir 4 hours, the docket for that time was wholly derailed!

"What an experience, it was really truly scary due to the fact that erstwhile I was rolling down the hill, I had nary power of the car - the brakes wouldn't work, handbrake wouldn't work, I was conscionable sliding down this hill. I thought: 'Oh my God, is this going to beryllium my past occurrence ever?'

"You look backmost present and laughter but astatine the time, it was truly scary," helium added: "It was harrowing but determination we go, I unrecorded to archer the tale!"

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