Following the death of Phil Spencer’s parents Richard, 89, and Anne, 82, mourners have been gathering at the bridge where their car fell to lay floral tributes at the scene.
Pictures obtained by MailOnline have shown a bouquet of bright, colourful flowers placed near to where the vehicle careered over the bridge and landed upside down in the river.
Location, Location, Location presenter Phil has been left devastated by the death of both of his parents in the fatal car accident on their family farm.
The Channel 4 host’s parents died on Friday lunchtime when they were driving up to a pub for lunch.
Their car unexpectedly ran off the access road into a shallow tributary river running through their estate in Littlebourne, near Canterbury, Kent.
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Following the crash, Phil’s brother Robert tried to save their parents by using a pen knife to cut off their seat belts and pull them from the river, but sadly neither could be revived.
Emergency services, including an air ambulance, attended the scene and Richard and Anne were taken to hospital, where they were sadly pronounced dead.
A woman in her 60s, who Phil has confirmed was a carer for the couple, was also in the car and survived the crash with minor injuries.
Following the terrifying ordeal, she was able to quickly climb out of the car’s back window to raise the alarm.
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Taking to Instagram yesterday, Phil shared a heartbreaking tribute to his parents in view of his 141,000 followers.
Posting a sweet photo of her parents smiling as they posed behind a half-opened stable door, he wrote: “Very sadly both of my amazing parents died on Friday. As a family we are all trying to hold onto the fact Mum and Dad went together and that neither will ever have to mourn the loss of the other one. Which is a blessing in itself.
“Although they were both on extremely good form in the days before (hence the sudden idea to go out to lunch), Mums Parkinson’s and Dads Dementia had been worsening and the long term future was set to be a challenge.
“So much so that Mum said to me only a week ago that she had resigned to thinking ‘now it looks like we will probably go together’,” he added. “And so they did. That was what God had planned for them – and it was a good plan.
“The car, going very slowly, toppled over a bridge on the farm drive, upside down into the river,” he continued. “There were no physical injuries and I very much doubt they would have even fought it – they would have held hands under the water and quietly slipped away.
“Their carer was in the car and managed to climb out of a back window so the alarm was raised quite quickly.
“As many farmers do – my brother had a penknife and so was able to cut the seat belts – he pulled them out of the river but they never regained consciousness.
“Although desperately sad and shocked beyond all belief – all family are clear that if there can ever be such a thing as having a ‘good end’ – this was it.
“It feels horrendous right now, but after almost 60 years of marriage – to die together on the farm they so loved will, I know, be a comfort in the future.
“Mum Dad are together which is precisely where they would have wanted to be,” he concluded.
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