Driver awarded for bravery

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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Ken Boon wins chief executive’s Award for Bravery 2013

The courage of one of our drivers whose selfless actions averted a potentially deadly incident on the M25 has been recognised by chief executive Moya Greene.

Ken Boon, a driver at the Northern Home Counties distribution centre, has won the chief executive’s Award for Bravery 2013.

While travelling east on the motorway Ken was overtaken by a car which started to veer into the central reservation and other vehicles.

‘I initially thought the driver might be drunk,’ Ken told Courier after the incident, ‘but when I pulled up next to the vehicle I could see that the man had collapsed at the wheel.’

Heroic manoeuvre

Ken overtook the vehicle and gently applied his brakes, causing the car to collide with the back of his Royal Mail truck. He slowed down and was able to bring the car to a stop.

Finding all doors were locked, Ken smashed a side window with his knee and administered first aid to the driver until the emergency services arrived.

‘The paramedics couldn’t thank me enough,’ Ken told Courier. ‘They said if I hadn’t managed to stop the driver, we could have been looking at a very serious incident.’

Announcing the award’s winner, Moya Greene said: ‘Ken has shown tremendous bravery, putting himself into harm’s way to save the life of a stranger. He had to think quickly and take spur of the moment actions to protect his fellow road users and save a life.’

The driver, believed to have had a fit at the wheel, was taken to hospital and released the next day.

[DB1100]

Well done,richly deserved.

[Lounge Lizard]

"The driver, believed to have had a fit at the wheel, was taken to hospital and released the next day." - shouldn't be driving if he's susceptible to that.

[DB1100]

"The driver, believed to have had a fit at the wheel, was taken to hospital and released the next day." - shouldn't be driving if he's susceptible to that.

Might be his first time,epilepsy or seizure's can be triggered by a variety of things,it could happen to anyone even you.

[UnhappyGremlin]

Brave actions. Not many people would have responded like this or quickly enough.

[blue1873]

Brave man Ken Boon,notice how http://www.myroyalmail.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; report it as a
"potentially deadly incident" and not a potentially deadly accident,makes
me think they have lost the word ACCIDENT from their vocabulary going
by the amount of times i hear managers in my office talk of incidents
as opposed to ACCIDENTS. Clones! (Maybe spelt that wrong)

[Lounge Lizard]

"The driver, believed to have had a fit at the wheel, was taken to hospital and released the next day." - shouldn't be driving if he's susceptible to that.

Might be his first time,epilepsy or seizure's can be triggered by a variety of things,it could happen to anyone even you.

Maybe, but many's the person who know's they're not right but doesn't get checked out because they know doing so would most likely lose them their driving license.