drama

It's been a bit of a bad evening in Cardiff, thanks to a lunatic driver who took it into his head to go careering through the west of the city, hitting as many people as he possibly could - news article here. At least 12 people are known to be injured - when I caught the bus to my mum's earlier (had a job getting there, though, due to the road closures and tailbacks), the bus driver said he'd heard of three fatalities, but that isn't confirmed. The main A&E unit up at the hospital was closed to all other patients, so they could respond to the incident effectively.

And my little sis was caught up in the middle of it all - she was with a friend at McDonalds just down the road from my house when the whole retail park was closed down by the police because the man had run over two people there, as well, and that's where he was arrested. We had her on the phone in a panic, not knowing what to do - we told her to stay put! So they stayed there watching the air ambulance set down in the football club car park, just alongside McDonalds, until police started letting people leave the shops - then they ran from there to our cousin's house nearby to sit it out until the roads opened properly again.

Among the injured is a friend of our family - Anastasia is a young mum attached to my uncle's church in Ely; her sister JoJo went out with my cousin for a while. Annie was just walking down the road with her two-year-old daughter Amelia when this bloke drove his van right into them, completely randomly. Thank God the baby escaped with some bruising, but Annie's leg is broken in two places - not ideal when you have a toddler to care for. Still, it could have been so much worse.

Edit - the news is now reporting one fatality, 11 injured - 7 of them children. :(

Edit again - the Daily Mail website actually has a picture of Annie and Amelia, here.

drama

It's been a bit of a bad evening in Cardiff, thanks to a lunatic driver who took it into his head to go careering through the west of the city, hitting as many people as he possibly could - news article here. At least 12 people are known to be injured - when I caught the bus to my mum's earlier (had a job getting there, though, due to the road closures and tailbacks), the bus driver said he'd heard of three fatalities, but that isn't confirmed. The main A&E unit up at the hospital was closed to all other patients, so they could respond to the incident effectively.

And my little sis was caught up in the middle of it all - she was with a friend at McDonalds just down the road from my house when the whole retail park was closed down by the police because the man had run over two people there, as well, and that's where he was arrested. We had her on the phone in a panic, not knowing what to do - we told her to stay put! So they stayed there watching the air ambulance set down in the football club car park, just alongside McDonalds, until police started letting people leave the shops - then they ran from there to our cousin's house nearby to sit it out until the roads opened properly again.

Among the injured is a friend of our family - Anastasia is a young mum attached to my uncle's church in Ely; her sister JoJo went out with my cousin for a while. Annie was just walking down the road with her two-year-old daughter Amelia when this bloke drove his van right into them, completely randomly. Thank God the baby escaped with some bruising, but Annie's leg is broken in two places - not ideal when you have a toddler to care for. Still, it could have been so much worse.

Edit - the news is now reporting one fatality, 11 injured - 7 of them children. :(

Edit again - the Daily Mail website actually has a picture of Annie and Amelia, here.