Good Samaritans

It was the first day of our mini tour consisting of one night at the Hurn Lane CC site, three nights at Minehead CC site and 3 nights at Cheddar Gorge CC site.

We had arrived about tea time and were hungry and decided to use our bikes to go along the sea front and get a take away. Unfortunately about 2 miles from the van a dropped curb wasn’t as dropped as it should be and Sam came off her bike, we were doing a bit of speed so it was quite a nasty fall. Almost immediately a passer by stopped to help, Sam was in a lot of pain so he phoned an ambulance, another lady had stopped and was offering antibacterial wipes and another couple had also stopped to help.

In no time art all the ambulance had arrived and the paramedics had got Sam on her feet and into the ambulance.

I noticed that with the last couple to stop and help that the man had disappeared but his wife was still there giving words of support and wisdom.

I had thought they would take her to A&E and I would somehow have to get the bikes back to site and follow through to A&E but no, Sam re emerged from the ambulance with the help of the paramedics who reported that she was battered, bruised and shaken but thankfully nothing broken.

After thanking them the ambulance left and at about the same time the lady’s husband turned up, he’d been and emptied his car, a large people carrier, and put he rear seats down to get our bikes in and takes us back to our site !!!

Its lovely to see how people can be so helpful when you need it, I don’t know what we would have done with out them, and true pair of good Samaritans.

We took it easy and still had a great holiday and two weeks later Sam still has a few red bits but is on the mend.

On the last day we managed to get a shot of the van right in the middle of the Cheddar Gorge…..

Have you been helped by a good Samaritan ?