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Article: A lorry driver who had to be rescued after collapsing in the road has praised paramedics
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- Gloucestershire Echo, The
- Article date:
- August 27, 2008
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Lorry driver Stephen Dyson has praised paramedics for rescuing
him after he was left paralysed in his cab.
The 38-year-old, from Bishop's Cleeve, was delivering pallets to
a customer in Stroud when he felt a tremendous pain in his back.
Struggling back to his lorry, he collapsed and had to crawl
across the carriageway.
Stephen managed to pull himself into his cab and phone an
ambulance.
"I got half way up and I felt something go," he said. "I crawled
back to my lorry. I was in agony and knew I was in trouble."
Police, fire and ambulance crews arrived and sealed off the road
as Stephen was stabilised, given pain relief and transferred to the
County Air Ambulance.
One of the discs in his back ...