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Letters to the editor: Woman thanks strangers who helped injured 91yo friend

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A woman wants to thank the strangers who helped her elderly friend after a fall. Photo / Getty Images

A woman wants to thank the strangers who helped her elderly friend after a fall. Photo / Getty Images

A big thank you

A couple of days ago, my 91-year-old friend, who uses a mobility walker, and I were walking in the Farmers car park, when she tripped and measured her length on the ground.

She had bumped her head and made it bleed, she also had scrapes on her hand. Because she wasn't to be moved we could not see if there was other damage.

Almost immediately people arrived to offer assistance. One rang for the ambulance, another fetched a rug from her car and someone else put a jacket over her. A scarf was put under her head.

These wonderful people waited with us till the ambulance arrived and helped to lift my friend on to the stretcher. The ambulance staff were also very efficient and caring.

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To all these wonderful people may I say a very big thank you. There is still much kindness in the world.

After being checked over at hospital my friend was able to be taken home, with just cuts and abrasions on her arms and knees.

Marion Bennett
Gate Pā

Mobility cars high risk

We spent some time in Amsterdam where these types of vehicles (mobility cars) are used by the disabled and many others as cheap transport (News, June 30). There were hundreds of them.

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Unfortunately, they were allowed to use the cycle lanes, which resulted in a high risk to cyclists and to pedestrians trying to cross two cycle lanes with these things travelling at 30kph and two or more traffic lanes with cars and motorbikes travelling at 50kph or more - an absolute disaster.

They are cars, keep them on the road.

Russell Wenn
Ōropi

Road closures frustrate

There are more streets blocked off in the CBD than not at the moment. It's very frustrating when you think you've made the right choice and, next minute, it's covered in road cones and you have to extricate yourself.

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Surely there is some rule somewhere that states you cant block off more than two streets at any one time in the CBD?

And as far as the mobility vehicles (News, June 30) go, they are coming and we have to accommodate them as best we can, not put obstacles in their way. They are electric vehicles and don't add to carbon emissions.

Every two people that come to town in one of these is one less car emission, one less car park taken up.

Tony Hewitson
Tauranga

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