Hero nurse on her way to second shift of the day in Milton Keynes stops to help injured driver

Charlotte Appiah she was on her way to work her second shift of the day because she was covering for a colleague with Covid symptoms.

She spotted a crashed car that had flipped onto its roof at the side of the A5.

Charlotte manages the A&E mental health liaison team for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services for CNWL at Milton Keynes Hospital.

She said: “I had left for work and was travelling along the A5 when I came across this car. I was actually first on the scene and it looked to be an horrific accident as the driver had come off the road and gone up the verge and was upside down.

“There was no one else around. I stopped and climbed up the verge to see if there was anyone inside the vehicle and found a man who was trapped in the car with head and arm injuries, though still conscious.

“I spoke to him for a few minutes, asking him his name, age and then managed to stop another car driver to assist me with the injured man while I called 999.

"However due to the Coronavirus situation there was going to be a wait for an ambulance so I kept the man calm and put pressure on his wounds.”

Charlotte said her reaction was natural for her.

“I’m a nurse and there was no one else around," she said.