Written by We ventured into Colchester this morning and mooched around the shops then had something to eat.
On the way back we saw an accident at the lights near Leisureworld on Cowdray Avenue.
James tugged my arm and I looked up to see a man in a motorised wheelchair being hit by a white van. It was a very low speed collision and the man was still in his wheelchair – it was quite shocking to see.
A woman who we presumed was with the wheelchair man came along and was making sure he was OK.
Then I noticed the traffic in the outside lane was moving – it was the white van’s right of way!
The white van man moved away from the lights to let the traffic move more easily, but pulled over and came over to make sure the wheelchair man was OK. James let the white van man know we saw what had happened and we stuck around in case the man and woman caused him any trouble.
The man said nothing, but the woman told us he assumed it was OK to cross as another bloke had just crossed. But what really riled me about it was that there was no apology given to the van driver. The poor guy had done nothing wrong but had nonetheless hit a pedestrian who didn’t seem to have any idea that he was in the wrong.
Today has enforced my reasoning as to why people are just shit.