A GRANDMOTHER has thanked the people who came to help her after she was knocked down while using a zebra crossing in the town centre.

Patricia Drewitt, who lives in the town centre, was crossing the road between Regent Circus and Crombey Street when she was in collision with a Ford focus on September 29.

Three people came to help the 76-year-old grandmother-of-five before an ambulance arrived but Patricia has no way of contacting them.

“I had just come back from holiday and went to get a few bits so I came up Commercial Road,” said the retired shop assistant.

“It was so hot that day, I crossed over to get out of the sun. I went across the zebra crossing at the top,” .

“It happened so quickly. I felt a big bump and then I came down and I was on the ground. I remember saying ‘oh, my God’ and then the driver got out the car and said, ‘oh, my God, what have I done?’”

Two women and a man came to help Patricia straight after the accident “They were there like a flash, they were there before anybody else,” she said.

“I couldn’t lie down and even when the ambulance came I was sitting up.

“The young ladies asked if I was all right and took it in turns to kneel behind me to help me sit up until the ambulance came.

“There was a man too and he went and got a blanket or something out of his car to cover me. It felt like they were all there for ages.

“I would just love to thank the people but I don’t know their names or anything.”

The 51-year-old driver appeared at Swindon Magistrates’ Court on December 12 charged with careless driving and was fined £300 and issued six penalty points.

Patricia, who had broken her shoulder in four places, spent four and a half weeks at Great Western Hospital after the accident and is still recovering.

“My arm was badly smashed too. I’m just getting a bit of life back in my hand now,” she said.

“One of the ladies who helped me rang up the hospital the next day to see how I was.

“I asked if they got her name and phone number so I could thank her but they didn’t have it. I was gutted.

“I was in so much pain and I thought those poor people’s knees, they must have been in agony. I just want to thank them.”