How can you drive by when a man is clearly hurt?

Miss Alden said she was outraged people could just drive past someone who was obviously seriously ill.

"I am absolutely gobsmacked people before me didn't stop. I want to make them feel more guilty and be more considerate in the future," she said.

"What hope is there for any of us if people are that selfish they can just ignore a person who is ill?"

Miss Alden, 46, was on Tuesday (August 17) on her way to collect her daughter from her night-time job, and was driving along Rowan Way

at 7.50am heading towards Shripney Road when she saw a shape on a verge.

It was near the Sunningdale Gardens junction and clearly visible but scores of drivers ahead of her were just driving past the site.

"I saw a bundle on the verge and thought it was some old clothes,"

Miss Alden said. "I realised it was a man as I got closer and that he had fallen over or collapsed.

"I couldn't believe other motorists had just driven past him. I stopped and walked back to the man. Other people then began to stop as well.

"I didn't have my mobile phone with me so I waved down another woman motorist and she called the ambulance.

"The man, who I would say was in his late 50s, was semi-conscious. I don't know how long he had been there. But he could have been there for hours before someone walked past on the pavement."

Miss Alden said the paramedics who arrived knew the collapsed man.

She saw them carrying him into the ambulance when she drove past again with her daughter and heard the vehicle's siren start as it left the scene.