Hero teacher saves children
Published: June 24, 2005
Prompt action by geography teacher Andrew Porter prevented two young children in a pushchair from plunging into a lake last week.
He managed to grab the pushchair containing a baby and a toddler just as it was about to topple into the lake in Verulamium Park, St Albans, after their mother was knocked out as she walked along a footpath.
Andrew was one of three teachers from Roundwood Park School in Harpenden who were in the park with a party of 45 11 and 12-year-old pupils on a field trip. He said: “We were all sitting there eating our lunch when we spotted the woman walking towards us.
“There was pigeon on the footpath which did not move until she touched it with the wheel of the pushchair - then it flew up in her face.”
Andrew added: “I think she fainted from the shock and fell backwards banging her head on the footpath. She let go of the pram, which had a newborn baby and a child of about 18 months in it, and it rolled towards the lake. I just managed to get to it as it went over the edge.”
While Andrew, who also teaches games, was rescuing the two children, one of his colleagues tended the mother who had been knocked out by the blow to her head.
He said: “We called an ambulance and she had just started to come round as it arrived about six minutes later.”
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Internet for Teachers DVDThe woman and her children were taken to hospital and the staff and students from Roundwood Park continued with their field trip.
Andrew added: “It was very fortunate that we were there. Just before the incident the children had been doing a pedestrian count and only one person walked past in five minutes.”
He said he had no idea who the woman was.
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