A driver has won a prestigious award in recognition of his compassion in helping to provide assistance to a vulnerable young woman on his bus while driving to Spalding.
Lewis Mayo won a Stagecoach Star of the Month Award, in the category of ‘Doing the right thing’.
It’s after a 20-year-old woman boarded Lewis’s bus at Queensgate Bus Station in Peterborough, asking to be taken to Spalding, despite having no money.
She was cold and had been sleeping rough, so he allowed her to board.
On arrival at Spalding, she asked to go back to Queensgate to stay out of the cold weather.
However, upon arrival, Lewis realised that she had curled herself up into a ball and looked extremely pale, so he called 999 and requested an ambulance to revive her. The response was extremely quick and the paramedics managed to secure her condition.
Making the award, alongside head of operations at Peterborough depot, Hema Russell, Darren Roe, managing firector of Stagecoach East, said: “I am so proud of the thoughtful and compassionate way that Lewis approached what was a very difficult situation – and to the rest of the team and the emergency services who worked so quickly and professionally to offer what help they could.
“Our thoughts are with this young woman and it just goes to show that, as people who run local buses, we are very much part of the local communities we serve – because they are our communities.
“As with our partnership with Businesses Against Abuse, our buses are safe-spaces, and our drivers will regularly go out of their way to help the most vulnerable members of our society.”
- Breaking News
