Kate Garraway has opened up about an “utterly terrifying” driving experience, after her car had a full tyre blow out on the family’s first trip without her husband Derek.
The Good Morning Britain presenter’s husband has been in ICU since the end of March after contracting COVID-19.
The 53-year-old detailed the frightening experience, revealing that she “couldn’t get off the motorway” during the incident.
Kate took to Instagram to thank the police for rescuing her and her two children: “Thanks to our amazing saviours Liz & Mark from @kentpoliceuk who rescued me after a full tyre blow out on the motorway!!!”
“Never had one before – utterly terrifying,” she admitted.
“Managed to keep control of car but couldn’t get off motorway as no hard shoulder & when the AA said they couldn’t come for an hour , then rang after half an hour to say might still be an hour had no choice but to call the police.”
“They were so brilliant and got us to safety and we are now on way home in taxi , shaken but safe , tow truck on way to car.”
“It’s first time have taken kids out without Derek too , but we are safe,” she stated.
Kate further explained the situation on Good Morning Britain this morning: “It was the first time I’ve been out with the kids leaving London, we were going to meet some friends in Kent in a socially distanced way.”
“On the way back [the tyres] suddenly exploded and it’s that moment you think ‘I can’t control the car’, smoke, bits of rubber flying everywhere…it just happened that the part of the motorway we were on there was no hard shoulder.”
“That’s when you sort of get panicky because you’re in live traffic… we were rushing back because we were conscious to get back to London to check on Derek.”
‘It’s that moment you think 'I can’t control the car', smoke, bits of rubber flying everywhere.’ @Kategarraway details the terrifying moment she had a blowout on the motorway and had to be saved by Kent Police.
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Kate recently gave a promising update of her husband’s recovery, revealing nurses told her that Derek looked “focused and engaged” when they put the morning show on for him in order to try and invoke a response.
“He is stable and actually yesterday I spoke to the nurses and they said they had put Good Morning Britain on and they felt he looked, because his eyes are open, he looked focused…,” she stated on the show.
The mother-of-two returned to the morning programme last week after taking time off to care for her 52-year-old husband.
The couple married in 2005 and they share two children together – Darcey, 14, and Billy, 11.
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