Passers-by rescue fallen walker
Published: January 24, 2007
A MALVERN man wants to thank the people who came to his rescue when he slipped and broke his leg on the Malvern Hills.
Graham Davies, aged 54, an artist, of Abbey Road, was enjoying a walk near the top of the Worcestershire Beacon when the fall happened on Sunday afternoon.
“It was just some wet grass, and I went down in a second,” he said. “I realised I’d done something when I heard it crunch. I had my mobile but the battery was dead, so I lookeed up and started shouting for help.”
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After a couple of minutes, he attracted the attention of a couple from Birmingham visiting the hills. “They got me up and on to the main path. I knew there would be cyclists around, and if they could put me on a bike, they could wheel me down.”
Two cyclists soon stopped to help, and with Mr Davies on the saddle and a helper on each side of him, they were able to wheel him down to the cafe at St Ann’s Well.
Meanwhile, he had borrowed a phone and called his partner Wendy Vincent-Lloyd, who drove up to meet him. St Ann’s Well proprietor John Redman took him down to the bottom of the hill, where Ms Vincent-Lloyd was waiting with her car to whisk him to Royal Worcester Hospital.
Although he realised he might well have broken a bone, Mr Davies said he was not tempted to call for an ambulance or rescue service. “There’s other people worse off than me, I thought. I knew that if I could get some help, I could get down off the hill by myself. I didn’t want to be any trouble.”
At the hospital, doctors diagnosed three broken bones in his leg and ankle, and the next day, surgeons operated to put metal pins in the bones.
Now Mr Davies wants to say thank-you to the people who helped. “It just shows you how good people can be. The couple who found me were from Birmingham and I didn’t really get a chance to thank them. The couple with the bikes were local people, I think.”
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