A 47-year-old woman was hit by a car on Monday 25 July while trying to cross the street on Jan Heijnsstraat in Tilburg. The damage: a severe concussion and, among other things, a bruised neck and spine. There was no trace of the driver after the accident. Police are investigating and looking for witnesses.
According to the police, the injured woman is still in a rehabilitation hotel on Wednesday to recover. “My mother has since been unable to sit, walk or stand because of the pain in her lower back,” her daughter wrote on Facebook on Tuesday. She thinks the adrenaline kept her mother from realizing how badly injured she had been. That is why she preferred to go home after the collision and did not immediately call the police or an ambulance.
It happened more than a week ago, but an official report was only made to the police on Tuesday. The daughter also places another appeal via Facebook: who saw the accident and helped her mother home? Have they seen anything from the car that the police can do something with?
It is Pink Monday, the first Monday of the Tilburg Kermis, when the woman is at the crossing with traffic lights around 11.30 am. She is on her way to the Albert Heijn XL to do some shopping. As soon as the light turns green, she crosses. From the roundabout on the left, a gray car – presumably a Mercedes – is approaching at high speed in her direction. There is no time to swerve. The pedestrian is kicked by the car and lands on the hood.
According to the daughter, a wiper sticks into her mother’s cheek during the blow and she hears how the car window cracks. On the other side of the road, the Tilburg girl falls off the hood. She lands on the ground with her head and back. The woman becomes unconscious. When she comes to, bystanders come to her aid, but she wants nothing more than to go home.
When she arrives at home, the woman is still taken to the doctor, who immediately calls an ambulance. It is also doubted whether an air ambulance should be called in, because she keeps losing consciousness. The paramedics are looking after her. After the administration of morphine, a strong painkiller, the woman is still able to transport the woman to the hospital by ambulance.
The results of multiple scans and examinations in the hospital are not pleasant: the Tilburg woman appears to have suffered a severe concussion, which makes her constantly fainting, among other things. Her cervical vertebra, vertebra and ribs appear to be bruised. Her spine is also dislocated from the bruise and swelling. There is a tear in her pelvis and there is “so much more to mention”, the daughter writes.
There is no trace of the driver to date. The police are investigating whether there are CCTV images and are conducting a neighborhood investigation. People who saw the accident happen or who may have seen the damaged car can get in touch.