Emerson Way Drivers
I hope whoever was driving is reading this, but on Sunday 21st October at 12.30pm my gorgeous ball of fluff was knocked over by a speeding car along Emerson Way. I pulled up outside my house and was about to get out of my car, when I saw a white car coming fast from St. Cuthberts Way up Emerson Way and I waited for it to pass.
In my wing mirror I saw my cat running across the road, then the impact. The driver must have known they had hit her, but sped off. I quickly got out and panicked.
She had dragged herself to the side, but was gasping and then I saw the blood in her mouth. I scooped her up and was about to take her to the vets, but by the time I got to my car she had died in my arms.
She was an outdoors cat and maybe shouldn’t have ran across the road, but unfortunately cats aren’t taught the green cross code.
I know the car that hit her was going faster than they should, after all it’s a long road, why would you go slowly? Well, you go slowly because its a street of houses, where people, especially young children, live.
This was my baby so goodness knows what it would have been like if it had been a small child.
This is not the first time I have witnessed cars speeding along this road. I know from now on I will be taking descriptions of any speeding vehicles and sending them to the police. I know to some it was only a cat, but it was my cat, a member of my family, the youngest member of my family and I am destroyed because of it. I watched her struggle and die, thankfully quickly and not in pain for long, but something needs done about that road and it’s uncaring drivers.
Glyn Stevens
Emerson Way
