It’s a parent’s worst nightmare answering the phone and hearing that your child has been involved in an accident. A memory that Linda Goodacre remembers only too well when her then 16 year old son Oliver was hit by a car whilst walking home from a party.
Oliver Goodacre had been out with his friends in West Bridgford when the accident occurred in September last year.
“I got a call from one of his friends saying Oliver had been hit by a car and wasn’t moving,” Linda recalls “I got straight into my car and drove to where they were. I was petrified to see the state of Oliver. As I arrived he was being taken into the ambulance on a stretcher.”
Paramedics from East Midlands Ambulance Service were first on scene within four minutes of the 999 call being made. Oliver was in a serious life threatening condition so the crews worked together, with a voluntary Doctor from East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme (EMICS) to stabilise him and get him to Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham as quickly as possible.
Oliver was in a coma for several days and suffered a bleed on the brain; both of his lungs had been punctured and his skull fractured. Oliver has lost his sight in one eye.