Accident victim Michael gets a bird's eye view

ROAD accident victim Michael Parkinson has thanked friends for a treat which took him - and his crutches - on a bird s-eye view of London.
By The Newsroom
Published 3rd Jan 2002, 14:23 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 19:52 BST

Keen footballer Michael came within an ace of losing his left leg when his scooter was involved in a collision with a car in West Down Road last August.

Surgeons at King s College Hospital hope they have saved the leg and have since given Michael a bone graft to replace some of the five inches lost in the accident.

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But the long road to Michael s recovery involves regular visits to the London hospital.

Taxi driver and classic car collector Dave Smith is a former work colleague of Michael s father Neil.

He felt so sorry for the family s plight that to save Neil the trouble and expense of taking a day off work to drive Michael and his mother, Sandra, to the hospital at Dulwich, he offered to undertake the task.

Dave is a regular exhibitor and helper at the Bexhill 100 Festival of Motoring. Friends held a raffle at their pre-Christmas get together which provided 60 towards the cost of Michael s latest trip. But Dave had an additional surprise for Michael and Sandra and treated them to a trip on the London Eye after the hospital appointment.

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