The son of an elderly woman who fell over outside Andover Bus Station and was left lying on the floor has expressed his gratitude towards the young people who helped her.
After Jean Meaton, 85, stumbled and hit her head at 4:45pm on October 21, she was left waiting for an ambulance on the cold concrete outside the bus station door until 8:50pm.
Four students from Andover College, three of which who are training in Emergency Services, saw Jean after getting off the bus and wrapped her in blankets and waited with her until the ambulance came.
Howard Meaton, Jean’s son, said: “Words are not enough sometimes, their actions will live with me forever.
“Thanks to the young people who were amazing and helped, she was looked after, they didn’t move her, and this could have been a whole lot worse.”
Jean is currently in Basingstoke Hospital, awaiting confirmation on surgery after she was found to have broken her hip in the fall.
Howard said: “She is doing okay, she’s got her wits about her, and she’s bored of being in a hospital bed.
“The ambulance people were amazing, the hospital staff are amazing, they are all doing whatever they can.”
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Stephen Bailey, a security guard from Lidl, who was on the scene, explained that people were stepping around Jean, with one of the students commenting on Facebook to say that someone ‘hopped straight over’ her.
Howard added: “Young people are sometimes painted in a bad light, but by and large, it was the young people who were more caring than the majority of the people who walked past.”
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