Good Samaritan given parking ticket while helping injured pensioner

A Good Samaritan was given a parking ticket by a traffic warden while helping an injured pensioner.

Lorna Dawson, 60, was driving past when she saw an elderly man who had fallen off a coach and was bleeding on the pavement.

She stopped her Hyundai car about 18ft away from the scene and put on her hazard lights before getting out to help.

But while she was busy helping clean his injuries a traffic warden approached her car a few yards away and slapped a £50 ticket on the windscreen.

After seeing the warden, she and others ran over to explain the situation but he said he had already issued the ticket.

Ms Dawson claimed the warden definitely saw the incident before issuing the penalty in Christchurch, Dorset, on Dec 21.

She said how she was disgusted by the lack of humanity, adding: “I jumped out of the car and this guy had fallen over and taken two older ladies with him.

“I dropped everything, put my hazards on and ran across to the coach which was virtually right in front of my car.

“I cleaned up the poor man and this guy was slapping a parking ticket on my car so I ran over. He didn’t know it was my car, but he could see something had happened and I was parked across, pulled over on the side. I wasn’t in a parking space and I had hazards on.

“These other people came with me and said, ‘Hang on a minute, you can’t do that. She’s helping somebody who’s just fallen over’ and he was like, ‘Oh, well I’ve already issued it.’

“Even the guy who was injured and still shaken came over to him and was going to say something.

“I’m just disgusted at the lack of humanity. I did say to both of them, ‘I hope to God nothing ever happens to you, because you put me off stopping to help people now. I just think it’s disgusting.”

Ms Dawson’s fine has now been cancelled after she appealed the ticket.

Cllr Richard Herrett from Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council said he wanted to acknowledge the act of kindness. He said that the parking ticket was issued without any knowledge of the incident and once it enters a legal process it requires the recipient to appeal the ticket.

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