Cyclist left lying unconscious in a drain after a horror hit and run is launches heartfelt search for the ‘angel of mercy’ who stopped to help him
- Cyclist, 66, left for dead in a hit-and-run is searching for woman who saved him
- Trevor Simmons was unconscious on the roadside after he was hit from behind
- Mr Simmons has a photo from the accident scene, but no idea who the woman is
- He has issued a plea on social media to help find her so he can say thank you
- Do you know this woman? Email hannah.moore@mailonline.com
A cyclist who owes his life to a woman who stopped to help him as he laying dying in a drain now wants to find his ‘angel’ and thank her.
Trevor Simmons was left lying on the side of the road unconscious after he was hit from behind on the New England Highway at Taro, near Newcastle.
The car that hit him quickly took off, and Mr Simmons, 66, lay in the drain on the side of the road for more than an hour before an unknown woman he calls his ‘angel of mercy’ stopped to help.
A cyclist who was badly injured in a hit-and-run accident has turned to social media to find the ‘angel of mercy’ (pictured in red top) who spotted him on the side of the road an hour after the crash and ran to his rescue
Despite multiple attempts in the past to locate the woman and say thank you, Mr Simmons has never come close to even learning her name.
On the one year anniversary of the accident, Mr Simmons has launched a social media campaign to track her down and give her the praise and thanks she deserves.
‘I would like to be able to find her to thank her for caring enough to stop, calling the ambulance and looking after me and staying with me till the paramedics arrived,’ he wrote in a post shared to Facebook on Wednesday.
‘I just want to thank her,’ he told Daily Mail Australia. ‘What made her stop? Hundreds of people would have driven past before her – it’s a busy road.’
Mr Simmons said he was hit from the back, which propelled him into the air. He landed on the road and slid into the drain, where he laid unconscious for more than an hour.
Cyclist Trevor Simmons has been searching for the woman (pictured) for a year, but has never come close to even learning her name
‘To be hit that hard, and to be knocked out for that long and to still be alive, that’s all I’m thankful for,’ he said.
‘I just want to share that with her and thank her for stopping, she obviously cared enough and looked after me.’
The crash, on October 9 last year, snapped his carbon fibre bike into pieces and left him badly scratched up with a head injury and a fractured left hip.
‘Huge amount of skin lost off my backside, now major bruising is coming out, skin off both shoulders, skin off both elbows, lacerations to the face,’ he told the Newcastle Herald at the time.
‘[The crash] smashed my glasses, smashed my helmet, chipped my front teeth.
‘To snap three members of that bike completely in half, it’s hit with a lot of force.’
Mr Simmons was hospitalised for nearly three days after the accident, and said he could not understand why he was left for dead.
‘No matter how I rationalise how it happened, I can’t imagine why anyone would walk away from it,’ he said.
Mr Simmons’ bike was broken into pieces and he was left unconscious on the side of the highway with horrific scratches, a fractured hip and a head injury