A WOMAN who fell headfirst into the road outside Basingstoke railway station and fractured her elbow is hoping to find a stranger who helped her.

Gill Cheesewright was about to catch a train to London to go shopping for the day when she tripped and fell into the road behind Basingstoke station.

The 72-year-old from Four Marks, near Alton, had parked her car in Bunion Place car park behind the station and was about to catch the train on Wednesday, September 27 at around 11.15am when she fell headfirst into the path of oncoming traffic. 

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Gill suffered serious injuries to her elbow and was bleeding heavily. 

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The retired mother-of-two, who used to work in IT, is now appealing to the public to help her find a kind stranger who stopped to help.

“She was coming down the road and was taking her grandson to college. I tripped and fell head on and she rushed out of her car to come and help when she realised how badly I was bleeding,” said Gill.

Reliving the awful moment, she said the woman tried to stem the flow of blood but realised that Gill needed urgent hospital treatment.

“She couldn’t stem the flow of blood,” explained Gill, adding: “She was wonderful. She tried to stem the flow of blood and tried to get a taxi, but there wasn’t one so she said ‘don’t worry, I’m taking you’.”

The woman’s grandson telephoned Gill’s husband, David, to let him know what had happened so he could meet her at Basingstoke hospital.

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But in the drama of the moment, Gill did not get a name or contact details for the woman and was unable to properly thank her.

She said: “You are in a daze, I was in shock. I needed to get hold of my husband and have him with me. I just needed to get to the hospital. The adrenaline takes over and strangely I wasn’t in a lot of pain. I hadn’t broken a bone but I had fractured it. The bleeding was very frightening.”

Gill was taken to A&E and has had surgery to repair the damage.

She now hopes to track down the woman who helped her to say thank you.

Gill said: "I don’t know what I would have done without her. With hindsight, what would I have done without her? She took charge and was wonderful.

“She dropped her grandson off and she saved the day. Without her, it would have been a much more elongated and difficult process. She did what was needed. How many people would do that?”

Are you the woman who helped Gill, or do you know her? Get in touch by emailing emily.roberts@newsquest.co.uk.