DEATH CRASH drama heading for THIS Emmerdale couple?

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There's terrifying drama heading to Emmerdale as Pete Barton and Rhona Goskirk are caught up in a horror crash - but will anyone make it out alive?

Rhona Goskirk is left fighting for her life next week in Emmerdale when she is caught up in a horror crash caused by her boyfriend Pete Barton.

The day starts off innocently enough with Rhona hoping for a duvet day with Pete.

But when he decides to go to work despite being horribly hungover, she decides she might as well work and, when Vanessa Woodfield asks her to cover her shift, Rhona reluctantly agrees.

Pete's brakes fail and he crashes into the barn

Pete tries to reach his phone while driving the dodgy tractor

When Pete arrives at Butlers to work, Matty is so busy complaining about Cain that he forgets to tell him that the breaks on one of the tractors are dodgy - something that he's definitely going to regret by the end of the day.

As vet Rhona arrives at the farm to check on a herd of cows, she is confused to find they have gone missing and calls Pete to find out where they are.

Pete's brakes fail and he crashes into the barn

Rhona is in the barn that Pete's tractor is heading straight for

But as hungover Pete goes to check his ringing phone while driving the dodgy tractor, disaster strikes when he almost runs Matty over, swerves, and ends up crashing into the barn, unable to stop thanks to the failed breaks.

However, it's only when Pete sees his phone that he realises Rhona is in the barn on the other side of a huge tower of hay bales... the ones he just crashed a tractor into.

As he races to find his girlfriend, he's horrified to see she has been pushed into a fence and has is impaled.

Pete's brakes fail and he crashes into the barn

Rhona is crushed by the hay bales and knocked unconscious

Poor Rhona is bleeding badly and totally out cold, causing Pete to fly into a panic.

Can the emergency services save Rhona, or has Pete just killed his own girlfriend in a terrible accident?

Watch these scenes on Thursday 21st February at 7pm on ITV.

Emmerdale airs weeknights at 7pm on ITV, with an extra episode at 8pm on Thursdays.

Picture credits: ITV

Claire Crick
Assistant Managing Editor at What To Watch

Claire is Assistant Managing Editor at What To Watch and has been a journalist for over 15 years, writing about everything from soaps and TV to beauty, entertainment, and even the Royal Family. After starting her career at a soap magazine, she ended up staying for 13 years, and over that time she’s pulled pints in the Rovers Return, sung karaoke in the Emmerdale village hall, taken a stroll around Albert Square, and visited Summer Bay Surf Club in sunny Australia. 


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