ribrage
Well-Known Member
Solitaire who is a good mate of mine and a long term sufferer of dementia was yesterday tragically and unavoidably struck by a car............ In tescos car park.
David is a familiar site at Tescos and often uses The car park there to practice his collision regs he was pushing his unladen trolley across a zebra crossing which he generally refers to as a "traffic seperation lane" and was apperently the "stand on vessesl" at the time of the incident.
The "commercial ferry" that struck him was as we understand of a larger size and known to us as a taxi , David did the correct thing at the time and made a mayday call to the coastguard and the" RNLI" ambulance team were sent to his aid.
The "RNLI" ambulance team were on scene in minutes and dealt with the accident very professionally and we were given some advice from them at the time "mate cant you keep your dad in the house,this is the 3rd time this week" !
David has been taken to hospital suffering from minor injuries and is safe and well but keeps mummbling to everyone "I was the stand on vessel" he HAD to stop.
The manager at Tescos has made a statement to the public " Whilst all reasonable care is taken to protect our senior citizens it is inevitable that this would happen sooner or later and we have now taken out a restraining order to prevent a reoccurance".
The uninjured skipper of the ferry (taxi) was led away from the scene shaking and was heard to comment " The crazy old bas_ard just ran at me screaming Im the stand on vessel and blowing a horn 5 times"
fortunatly David is recovering back at the nursing home and is safe and well, so David we your friends wish you a safe recovery and Im sure power skipper will join me shortly with a few pictures to brighten up this story.
Ian
David is a familiar site at Tescos and often uses The car park there to practice his collision regs he was pushing his unladen trolley across a zebra crossing which he generally refers to as a "traffic seperation lane" and was apperently the "stand on vessesl" at the time of the incident.
The "commercial ferry" that struck him was as we understand of a larger size and known to us as a taxi , David did the correct thing at the time and made a mayday call to the coastguard and the" RNLI" ambulance team were sent to his aid.
The "RNLI" ambulance team were on scene in minutes and dealt with the accident very professionally and we were given some advice from them at the time "mate cant you keep your dad in the house,this is the 3rd time this week" !
David has been taken to hospital suffering from minor injuries and is safe and well but keeps mummbling to everyone "I was the stand on vessel" he HAD to stop.
The manager at Tescos has made a statement to the public " Whilst all reasonable care is taken to protect our senior citizens it is inevitable that this would happen sooner or later and we have now taken out a restraining order to prevent a reoccurance".
The uninjured skipper of the ferry (taxi) was led away from the scene shaking and was heard to comment " The crazy old bas_ard just ran at me screaming Im the stand on vessel and blowing a horn 5 times"
fortunatly David is recovering back at the nursing home and is safe and well, so David we your friends wish you a safe recovery and Im sure power skipper will join me shortly with a few pictures to brighten up this story.
Ian
