A woman said she was "amazed" by the kindness of strangers after being told she would have to wait seven hours for an ambulance.
Carol Myers-Hughes from Helsby was on a day out with her sister and five grandchildren in New Brighton on August 17 this year. While returning from the beach she slipped and hit her head cracking her hip in two places.
Carol's family then called 999 and were told they would have to wait seven hours for an ambulance to be sent out to take her to hospital. Not wanting her grandchildren to see her in distress she asked her sister to take them home while she waited with her eldest granddaughter Paige.
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Carol said she "does not know what she would have done" if not for the kind onlookers who came to her aid while she battled with the long wait for the ambulance.
Speaking to the ECHO she said: "We had taken the grandkids to the fair rides and we had parked about three miles away. It was getting late, it must have been around 5pm. We went to get the car and the next minute I fell and I could not move my leg.
"At first they tried to get me into a police car but I was in agony and I could not get in and the pain was unbearable. Then two guys who lived in camper vans on the front heard me screaming and jumped in their vans and came round.
"Then a lady came over and stayed with me. They were wonderful people I kept telling the lady to leave but she was like my shadow and stayed with me, I was so humbled."
Carol said the two men got a chair and blankets to make her comfortable as the night set in. Carol who could not be moved because of the pain said she was "freezing" and going into "shock".
Carol, 60, said: "The three of them would not leave my side and kept me calm through the whole thing I do not know what I would have done without them. I was so grateful that they cared enough to stop and they did everything they could but I can't remember their names."
After waiting four hours an off-duty paramedic came across Carol and immediately called for an ambulance again which arrived within 20 minutes. Carol was taken to Arrowe Park Hospital where she spent ten days going in and out of consciousness before recovering.
She said: "When I woke up properly I thought only one day had passed but then I found out it was ten the whole thing was a nightmare. For the life of me, I can't remember the names of the people who helped me but I have been trying to find them.
"I would just like to thank them for everything they did without them I don't know where I would have been."
The North West Ambulance Service have been approached for a comment but are yet to respond.
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