He could have killed me says woman mowed down by cyclist
Rider ran red light and left without giving details
Nicole Kennedy was left with a cut head and sore neck
He told me I didn’t look left or right before I crossed the road but the green man was there NICOLE KENNEDY
A WOMAN injured in an alleged hit-and-run had to wait 22 hours for hospital treatment.
The victim, who does not want to be identified as criminal proceedings are ongoing, says she was “reduced to tears” by her experience in University Hospital Limerick’s A&E. She sustained neck and back injuries after two cars collided at the Parkway roundabout, near the Dublin Road at 7.30pm on Saturday.
The mum of two said: “I had pains on the right side of my neck and back. I kept getting shiver pains in my left arm, and my lower back was uncomfortable. It was totally unbearable.
“It is embarrassing when you’re sitting in a room full of people and you literally
ON HER CRASH ORDEAL
break down in tears as well. But people were very understanding, there were a lot of people very upset.”
The 35-year-old claimed she had been told to wait on a number of occasions, but after 17 hours had not even had a conversation with a doctor, “let alone an assessment”.
She added: “Management is so badly organised, people are being treated like numbers. I chatted to at least 10 elderly people and in these hours didn’t see one person even being offered a cup of tea.”
A HSE spokesman said they regret any patient having to wait to be seen.
They added: “The Emergency Department at UHL is one of the busiest in the country with over 67,800 attendances last year, an increase of 5% on the previous year. The numbers requiring admission includes many frail elderly patients with complex needs.”