Pensioner seriously injured in skateboard hit and run (From The Argus)
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Pensioner seriously injured in skateboard hit and run
5:00pm Saturday 21st April 2012 in News By Anna Roberts, Crime reporter
Martin and Yvonne
A pensioner suffered serious injuries when a skateboarder ploughed into her and then fled the scene.
Yvonne Stock, 76, was enjoying a walk along Brighton seafront when the incident happened.
She was walking on the Lower Esplanade, opposite the Grand Hotel, when the male skateboarder crashed into her.
Her partner of 30 years, Martin Kenward, 65, described how she was knocked to the ground.
An ambulance took Ms Stocker, to Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton where she was diagnosed with a dislocated ankle and two broken bones to her lower leg.
She was transferred to the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath, nearer her home in Hickmans Lane, Lindfield, where she remains with her leg in plaster.
On Monday she underwent a two-and-a-half-hour operation to fit pins in her legs. She will also require months of physiotherapy.
Mr Kenward said in the immediate aftermath of the incident his attention was focused on Ms Stock and he did not think to try to stop the skateboarder.
For the full story see tday's Argus.
Comments(25)
Unbias
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5:30pm Sat 21 Apr 12
Wooders22 wrote:Why the WOW?
WoW!
With the injuries received it wasn't just a knock was it!
This is a 76 year-old who had to have a 2 hour+ operation because of the incident....Mabey your milk bone heal better?
fedupwithgreens
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5:55pm Sat 21 Apr 12
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leobrighton
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6:05pm Sat 21 Apr 12
Number Six
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6:38pm Sat 21 Apr 12
leobrighton wrote:Fat chance of finding the cowardly B'Stard I fear
Obviously the skate boarder is responsible and I hope the police are investigating to find the culprit.
mimseycal
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7:12pm Sat 21 Apr 12
I expect that before long we will start hearing cries regarding the need to regulate skateboarders ... possibly licence them and certainly require them to have at least third party insurance.
bug eye
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7:13pm Sat 21 Apr 12
Retired Loon in Brighton
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7:27pm Sat 21 Apr 12
We need to give such thugs more cash and holidays, or it will only get worse.
SicklySeagull
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7:31pm Sat 21 Apr 12
SicklySeagull
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7:31pm Sat 21 Apr 12
Wivvy Dave
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7:58pm Sat 21 Apr 12
Maxwell's Ghost
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9:48pm Sat 21 Apr 12
Now they are giant adult men dressed as children so the poor lady probably suffered a real bash.
GIVE UP
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11:18pm Sat 21 Apr 12
Hotbeans
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4:46pm Sun 22 Apr 12
Stoves
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10:04am Mon 23 Apr 12
Leave them poor skateboarders alone!
willy harris
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10:48am Mon 23 Apr 12
Hotbeans wrote:actualy there deaf people in brighton,,you heartles git.
Approaching skateboarders are so noisy you'd have to be completely deaf not to hear them coming & get out of the way. The bloke should have stopped after the accident though.
willy harris
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10:51am Mon 23 Apr 12
Stoves wrote:ONE DAY YOU MIGHT REACH THIS PERSONS AGE, THINK WHAT YOU ARE SAYING ,,STUPID FOOL,
Isn't there a cycle path along there, perhaps its the old coffin dodger that was in the wrong - has any one considered this?
Leave them poor skateboarders alone!
willy harris
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10:51am Mon 23 Apr 12
Stoves wrote:ONE DAY YOU MIGHT REACH THIS PERSONS AGE, THINK WHAT YOU ARE SAYING ,,STUPID FOOL,
Isn't there a cycle path along there, perhaps its the old coffin dodger that was in the wrong - has any one considered this?
Leave them poor skateboarders alone!
Stoves
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10:53am Mon 23 Apr 12
willy harris wrote:The amount of drugs and alcohol i pump through my system, i doubt ill make another 5 years let alone another 40!!
Stoves wrote:ONE DAY YOU MIGHT REACH THIS PERSONS AGE, THINK WHAT YOU ARE SAYING ,,STUPID FOOL,
Isn't there a cycle path along there, perhaps its the old coffin dodger that was in the wrong - has any one considered this?
Leave them poor skateboarders alone!
Thanks for my benefits guys.
clubrob6
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12:30pm Mon 23 Apr 12
sarah l
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2:57pm Mon 23 Apr 12
Flippin Burghers
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5:22pm Mon 23 Apr 12
BHAFCboy
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6:17pm Mon 23 Apr 12
willy harris
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7:08am Tue 24 Apr 12
Stoves wrote:you sound just like the slimy scrounging no good layabout that your mother brought into this world,probably the same ilk,.get a job and gain some self worth.or take a bucket of drugs and leave decent people alone ,you filthy rat,
willy harris wrote:The amount of drugs and alcohol i pump through my system, i doubt ill make another 5 years let alone another 40!!
Stoves wrote:ONE DAY YOU MIGHT REACH THIS PERSONS AGE, THINK WHAT YOU ARE SAYING ,,STUPID FOOL,
Isn't there a cycle path along there, perhaps its the old coffin dodger that was in the wrong - has any one considered this?
Leave them poor skateboarders alone!
Thanks for my benefits guys.
Stoves
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9:16am Tue 24 Apr 12
willy harris wrote:LOL!
Stoves wrote:you sound just like the slimy scrounging no good layabout that your mother brought into this world,probably the same ilk,.get a job and gain some self worth.or take a bucket of drugs and leave decent people alone ,you filthy rat,
willy harris wrote:The amount of drugs and alcohol i pump through my system, i doubt ill make another 5 years let alone another 40!!
Stoves wrote:ONE DAY YOU MIGHT REACH THIS PERSONS AGE, THINK WHAT YOU ARE SAYING ,,STUPID FOOL,
Isn't there a cycle path along there, perhaps its the old coffin dodger that was in the wrong - has any one considered this?
Leave them poor skateboarders alone!
Thanks for my benefits guys.
Says the man who can hardly spell and has dreadful grammar. Also, if my mother didn't bring me into this world id be a blooming clone.
Wooders22 says...
5:09pm Sat 21 Apr 12