‘DISGUSTED’ Penistone mum Lisa Ross has hit out at drivers who left her injured and in agony after a rush-hour moped crash.
A bus was among the vehicles that failed to stop after slowing to avoid the 23-year-old as she lay with severe leg injuries in a road outside Oxspring, she alleges.
“My knee cap was hanging off and all the muscle around it was torn — I couldn't use my legs so I had to drag myself along the ground, and still no one stopped,” said Lisa, of Wilson Avenue, Penistone.
“When I saw the Stagecoach bus slow down I thought it would stop — it’s a public service and they would've had a first aid kit and a telephone. I couldn't take my helmet off or get my mobile to call the ambulance because my hands were all blistered. But the bus just drove past.”
The trainee hair stylist underwent surgery and spent a week in Barnsley hospital after the accident on Coates Lane, between Silkstone Common and Oxspring.
Richard Taylor, of Ingbirchworth, came to Lisa's aid about ten minutes after the accident, which involved a car overtaking her bike and clipping the front wheel at about 5pm on Friday April 27.
“The kind man and a woman I have no name for stopped to help me, and I’d like to offer my great thanks. Mr Taylor even came back to pick my bike up and recover it to my house,” said Lisa.
“As for the ones who didn't stop — I've never known such a bunch of ignorant people. They disgust me.”
A police spokesman said that there is a moral rather than legal obligation for a passing driver to stop and help.
