Home shopping driver Sam Speechley from Asda sprang into action when she heard someone in distress tap out what sounded like SOS in Morse code on their car horn. When she went to investigate she found 90-year-old Keith Turner who'd slipped on his driveway and had broken his hip, and had managed to drag himself to the car so he could sound the alarm.
Widower Keith, who's now back home after spending three weeks in hospital, said: "Sam saved my life, she really did, and I can't thank her enough. I'd been laying there in the rain and cold for half an hour and if she hadn't come along when she did I don't think I'd have made it. She's a Godsend.
"I heard the Asda van pull up, so I managed to get to the car horn. I didn't want to press it continuously as people may have thought it was the car alarm going off so I pressed it intermittently so it probably sounded like SOS. I was so pleased to see Sam when she came over."
