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An elderly man wants to find three good samaritans who came to his aid when he fell in the middle of a busy road.
Great-grandfather John Pink fell, face down, in the middle of the street, where the A2 Rochester Bridge towards Strood meets the filter lane leading to Canal Road.
His wife, 79-year-old Marty Pink, watched in horror as he lay motionless.
Mrs Pink said: “I thought he’d dropped dead - I was petrified. It wasn’t until I got him up and he said ‘get off me’ that I realised he was alive.”
Mr Pink said: “Well, you feel like such an idiot falling in front of 100 people.”
A man in his 20s jumped off his motorbike and rushed over to help the 79-year-old great-grandfather up.
Two women then jumped out of a Fiat 500, helped the Pinks into their car and drove them to Medway Maritime Hospital, in Windmill Road, Gillingham.
“Well, you feel like such an idiot falling in front of 100 people...” John Pink
Mrs Pink said: “There was blood everywhere. He had a leather-type jacket on and there was blood streaming down the front.”
Mr Pink said: “Any cut on the head bleeds but I’m on blood thinners, so that didn’t help.”
The pair, who live in Goodwood Close, High Halstow, were so concerned about getting blood on the car seat that they didn’t manage to get the names of the two women.
Mrs Pink said: “It was a cream Fiat 500, the interior was cream too and it was so pristine.
“I was so busy trying to clean up John, I didn’t get many details from them.”
The pair think the two women were in their 30s. The driver had silvery blonde, curly hair and the passenger had a short bob.
Mrs Pink said the woman in the passenger seat said she lived in Trevale Road, Rochester.
Staff at Medway Maritime Hospital cleaned up Mr Pink and confirmed he had no brain injuries but did have a sprained wrist and cuts and bruising on his face.
Both Mr and Mrs Pink would love to get in contact with the two women and the man on the motorbike to thank them for helping after the incident which happened at 12.30pm on Thursday, April 11.
Their daughter, Michelle Gillies, put an appeal out on social media but so far they’ve had no luck.
She said: “Mum was so shaken up, when they got to the hospital she only managed to give her mobile number to one of the women.
“We don’t even know if she told her the right one.”
Mrs Gillies has searched Trevale Road but there was no cream Fiat 500 to be seen.
Mrs Pink added: “They were all so kind. We said we felt bad if they were going out of their way but they said they were just having a girly catch-up. I think it was one of their birthdays because there was a little package in the back of the car.”
She added: “We’d like to see them in person, take them some flowers and a bottle of wine and say thank you, if I could find them.”
If you know any of the trio, contact our newsdesk on 01634 227803.
