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Heroic car park attendant saves OAP

Patrick McDonnell
28 April 2014
A woman was pulled to safety after driving through a brick wall at the Bury Road car park, Wood Green
A woman was pulled to safety after driving through a brick wall at the Bury Road car park, Wood Green

 

A parking attendant rushed to the rescue of a pensioner who crashed her car through a brick wall on the first deck of a north London multi-storey car park. 

Haringey council attendant David Adesina went to the aid of an 82-year-old woman, who has not been named, at the council’s 500-space Bury Road car park, Wood Green on 7?April.

Adesina said the woman was driving down the ramp in a Volkswagen Golf, negotiating a corner when she suddenly accelerated and smashed through the brick...

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