BBC Countryfile host recalls horror accident: ‘I thought I was going to die’ [Video]

Countryfile presenter Sammi Kinghorn has spoken about the terrifying accident that changed the course of her life.

During her childhood, Sammi enjoyed regularly helping out on her family’s rural farm in the Scottish borders and following her dad Neil as he completed jobs on the land.

On December 2, 2010, aged 14, she was playing on the farm with a friend, when they noticed Neil in a forklift.

While they were jumping around, Neil was ‘beeping his horn and laughing’, and this is when she decided to climb onto the machinery.

‘To this day, I have no idea why I did it,’ she told OK!

Neil was completely unaware that she’d climbed inside, and so lowered the forklift bucket, which he’d been using to shovel snow – on top of her.

She initially thought her dad, who’d always warned her about the dangers of farm life, was aware of her presence, and …