A 92-year-old retired dental nurse was seriously hurt after being mowed down in the street by a man on a mobility scooter.
Mrs Wicken’s daughter Helen Lee, 57, from Sunbury-On-Thames, said the rider stopped to check on her but left when other witnesses arrived. She said that the pensioner cried, “I’m in so much pain ... he hit me from behind, I didn’t even see him” before two people came to her aid.
Mrs Wicken is still receiving treatment in hospital and Mrs Lee says the family are considering legal action against the scooter rider, if they can identify him, after police deemed it an accident.If it had been a retired police officer mown down, do you think they'd have been so quick to dismiss it?
And...so what if it was an accident? Don't they have a duty of care to find this idiot to prevent more 'accidents'?
Old folk, culling older folk is going to work. What we need is rotating scythes on those mobility scooters so that every generation gets the taste of death on the pavement.
ReplyDeleteFrom the information available, this was no accident, which is where no blame can be apportioned to a person, but a case of dangerous or reckless use of the mobility scooter. The fact that the person left the scene without, apparently, leaving any personal details, shows a level of guilty feeling. Perhaps it should be treated as GBH, but that would entail a proper investigation, which appears unlikely.
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" What we need is rotating scythes on those mobility scooters so that every generation gets the taste of death on the pavement."
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"From the information available, this was no accident..."
If only you were still with the force.