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Disabled man forced to push mobility scooter home in pouring rain

1:00pm Friday 22nd July 2011

By Paula Roberts »

A DISTRESSED disabled man struggled to push his broken-down mobility scooter miles home while shameful motorists drove passed.
Andrew Phillips had been drenched by a downpour and was clearly struggling as he tried to push his vehicle along Castle Lane West, Bournemouth, at around 9pm on Monday.
The 62-year-old has used a mobility scooter for the last 20 years after suffering extensive damage to his knee joints in a car accident when he was a teenager.
He said he had been out on Monday evening and was returning home when the battery on his scooter failed.
Without a mobile phone or anyone to call, Andrew was left with no choice but to push his scooter home.
Speaking from his sheltered housing accommodation in Moordown, Andrew said: “I felt tired and knackered but had to carry on just to get home.”
He said he wasn’t shocked that no-one offered to help.
“I didn’t mind. My scooter has broken down before and you just get used to no-one helping. Nowadays you don’t expect anybody to come along and help,” he added.
But help arrived in the form of former police officer Paul Bellard.
Mr Bellard said: “I was following a long line of cars and just as I approached the Broadway roundabout, I saw a distressed elderly guy pushing his broken down mobility buggy along the road. He was soaked.
“I pulled over and saw that he was almost blue with cold. His battery had run out and he had no-one to call.
“He could hardly walk to my car he was so infirm. He had pushed his buggy well over a mile and at one point helped only by an elderly lady walking her dog.”
Paul called a friend to help take Andrew and his buggy home to Kingsley House in Coronation Avenue, the sheltered housing run by East Dorset Housing Association.
Andrew said: “I thought he was God’s gift!”
And Paul has hit out at staff at Kingsley House for the way they dealt with Andrew when he returned.
“This place has a website that boasts ‘extra care scheme with on-site care staff’, yet as I was practically carrying Andrew in, a member of staff arriving for work looked directly at me and walked past, entering an office with ‘social services’ over the doorway.”
Paul said he was reduced to tears when he asked another member of staff for help.
“I explained the situation, that Andrew was freezing cold, soaked and exhausted and might need some care. She replied: ‘I’ll put it into the book’ and closed the door leaving me, a total stranger, to take Andrew and his broken down buggy to his room.”
A spokesman for Synergy Housing said: “Synergy Housing is aware of all of Andrew’s issues and is working closely with Bournemouth social services to address them.”

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