Man helps woman who broke her hip in fall – but ends up with a £155 parking fine

A antheral was fixed a hefty parking summons portion helping an aged pistillate who had breached her hip.

Good Samaritan Alastair Kelly, 45, had popped retired for a sandwich erstwhile helium noticed the pensioner had fallen implicit and severely wounded herself extracurricular of a Marks and Spencer in Cowes, Isle of Wight.

Seeing the severely injured woman, Alastair called an ambulance – which took implicit 2 hours to get – earlier yet returned to his car, wherever helium was greeted by a £105 ticket.

Speaking astir the June 15 incident, Alastair said: ‘It’s large root of frustration, erstwhile you are being fined for doing a bully deed, I conscionable don’t recognize however I tin beryllium fined for this.

‘I saw it and instantly went implicit to assistance arsenic I’m archetypal assistance trained. The pistillate was partially unsighted and successful her 90s and had breached her hip.’

Alastair appealed the good connected parking institution Euro Car Parks, believing the extenuating condition would escaped him of the hefty ticket.

The parking company’s website mentioned ‘extreme circumstances’ arsenic a crushed to appeal, which requires users to supply grounds of a aesculapian exigency which prevented a operator from returning to their vehicle.

‘I thought, that’s bang on,’ Alastair said.

He past provided the institution with telephone logs to beryllium helium was giving aesculapian assistance and had called an ambulance, but was shocked erstwhile helium was told they were rejecting his appeal.

To adhd insult to injury, arsenic helium hadn’t paid the archetypal £50 good successful time, it was accrued to £155.

Alastair says the concern is ‘extremely unfair’, saying the accent of dealing with a archetypal assistance situation was atrocious capable – and the good made it worse.

He said: ‘When I called 999 they specifically told maine to enactment with the patient, I couldn’t conscionable accidental to the lady, “Do you caput conscionable waiting portion I spell determination my car?”.

Alastair has since paid the good arsenic helium didn’t privation his recognition people to beryllium impacted, but spoke to section solicitor archetypal astir challenging the good successful court, but was advised the outgo would beryllium much than the good paid.

Euro Car Parks person been contacted for comment.

Two NHS workers were antecedently hounded by a car parkland absorption steadfast aft leaving their cars portion tending to a dying patient.

In 2022, Linda Somboongedd and Stacey Batten near their cars connected an property successful Canterbury for astir 40 minutes connected consecutive days to assistance the man, who passed distant soon after.

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