A terrible tragedy

19/10/2007 by Arielle.

Our neighbour’s mother came running over frantically this morning as I was eating breakfast with the family as her daughter was out jogging with the dogs and had come across an injured boy in a bush and she wanted me to go and fetch the dogs whilst her daughter went to find the boy’s Mum.

A young chap in the village (only 11 years old) was waiting for the schoolbus when a complete freak accident on a normally quiet country lane was to occur. A tree surgeon was driving past and his trailer on his van flew off; hitting the boy in his face. The boy is critically ill and we are all praying for him. What a tragedy. It is such a quiet road and he stood in the only spot to catch the full impact. The tree surgeon was obviously devastated and the police later closed the entire road.
I raced out to put the dogs in my car and help my friend, only to see the car windscreen thick with frost and realised that it would be quicker to run there. I raced to collect them which was a better solution as my neighbour (a pet sitter and dog walker); had gone out with 2 enormous Rhodesian Ridgebacks and her Weimerpoodle. They were a handful to walk home again, but I enjoyed the time walking them quietly back to think about the horror that had just happened. Pets have this wonderful therapeutic effect that bring us back to reality.

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