‘I was screaming in pain. I don't want this to happen to anyone else'

Pensioner broke arm after tripping in Folkestone’s Old High Street

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00:00I suddenly tripped on I didn't know what it was at the time and went down flat on

00:07my face well I put my hand out obviously because the injury is to my

00:15wrist and to my elbow and to my right elbow my right knee and my ribs are

00:22damaged because the camera was on my chest you had a camera around your neck

00:26yeah the camera was around my neck and the camera in like that and basically I

00:33either lay there screaming couldn't move and I was screaming I don't know what I

00:39was saying but there was probably some nasty things that I said as well and my

00:45son-in-law and a couple of members of the public helped me get up and I was

00:49screaming and calling was that bad I was calling them all sorts of things it was

00:55probably pretty rude I believe from what my daughters have said to me is that

01:04it's a cover to a water mains or water stock cock or something like that I

01:12just know that I tripped and fell on my face and what do I think should be done

01:18first of all I think somebody should say to me and apologize as a minimum in some

01:24way or another I've lost three weeks of my life and probably another three weeks

01:29where I can't do bugger all for the next three weeks and that's the other thing is

01:35that whatever the recourse is should be repaired so that nobody else really

01:41severely injures themselves

01:44you