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Patrick Davis - collapsed in the street |
Daughter’s plea to men who found collapsed pensioner
Rescuers urged to come forward as inquest hears how injury
proved fatal
THE daughter of a pensioner who died after collapsing in the street is desperate to contact three men who came to his aid.
Patrick Davis, 78, was brought to his brother’s home in Roman Way, Holloway, by three strangers who found him in the road paralysed from the neck down.
His daughter Patricia has been unable to contact the three men, despite putting cards in shop windows and asking in pubs.
Ms Davis, of Grafton Way, Somers Town, said: “If they are local people and read this article it would be lovely if they could tell us where they found him.
“It would be nice if they could come forward so I can thank them for helping my dad.”
A St Pancras inquest heard how retired engineer Mr Davis, of Robert Street, Regent’s Park, was on his way to see his brother in December last year when he suffered an injury, which left him paralysed from the neck down.
Ms Davis said: “I got the phone call from my uncle saying he’d collapsed. He didn’t know why.
“Three chaps took him to my uncle’s and put him in the armchair. He must have been able to speak then because he told them where to go.
“When I came round he was semi-conscious. His eyes were glazed and he was struggling big time. He didn’t appear to have feeling in his legs.”
Mr Davis, a father-of-two, was taken to University College Hospital in Euston, then the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, in Bloomsbury, but died seven weeks later.
His family discovered after the accident that he had osteo-arthritis in his neck, which doctors believe contributed to his injury – a severed spinal cord.
Ms Davis said of her father: “He was in good health. He was very active, a kind, generous family man. He liked to watch the football and a bit of racing. I was round there every weekend.
“It was a terrible, terrible, tragic accident. Had my dad not had the condition in his neck, perhaps it wouldn’t have happened.
Verdict: open.
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