A woman knocked off an e-scooter by a car driver in Bristol last week has appealed for two passers-by who helped her to come forward.
The woman, who has asked not to be named publicly, contacted Bristol Live to ask for help to find the Good Samaritans, who came to her aid before she was taken to hospital by ambulance from the scene on Fishponds Road last Friday morning (April 1).
One of the women who helped her even wrote her phone number down on a note and put it in the injured woman’s pocket - but it was lost somewhere between the pavement and the hospital, after nurses at A&E had to cut her clothes off her.
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The incident has left the 23-year-old still unable to walk, work and in severe pain. The impact of the car threw her across the bonnet, into the windscreen - which shattered - and across onto the pavement, landing heavily on the other side.
The woman was travelling along FIshponds Road on a legal Voi hire e-scooter when she began turning right into her work, near Eastville Park, at around 7am, when the car hit her.
She said she was immediately helped by two women, who she now wants to thank. “I was lying there and what I remember was it suddenly being really quiet. A blonde girl called Molly was first to come to me. She said she was on her way to work at the children’s hospital. She was quite young too.
“There was another blonde woman who came, and said she’d taken photos. I remember her saying that she’d put her phone number on a note - I think it was a Hermes delivery thing - and put it in my pocket. I remember that clearly, but when I got to hospital and went through the clothes they cut off me, it had been lost.
“Both women said they had seen what happened, and that’s important to me to talk them now, to say thank you as well,” she added.
Police and paramedics attended the scene and for a while the emergency services closed one lane of the busy main road and the incident caused a bit of traffic gridlock between Fishponds and the M32 in Eastville.
At the time, police issued a statement which said: “Officers have attended the scene of a collision between a car and a pedestrian in Fishponds Road, Bristol, following a call received at just after 7am today. At this time, it's not believed the pedestrian has suffered life-threatening or life-changing injuries, but she will be taken to hospital to be checked over. Enquiries into the collision are ongoing.”
For the 23-year-old victim of the crash, her injuries are still severe. “It was a complete miracle but I didn’t break any bones. I’ve had lots of sprains and concussion and even now, a week later, I can’t really walk, I’m badly bruised all over and I can’t work. I have to claim on insurance to make up for the wages I’m not getting, so it would be good to talk to the women who were there to help me,” she said.
If you were the two Good Samaritans who helped out the victim of the e-scooter crash on Fishponds Road in Eastville at 7am on Friday, April 1, contact Bristol Live and we’ll put you in touch. Email tristan.cork@reachplc.com or call 0117 9343262.
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