Fallen man ignored
NZPA-Reuter Oklahoma City
A 77-year-old man tripped and fell face down on the pavement in central Oklahoma City and hundreds of people going home stepped over his body or drove by without stopping.
Clinton Collins, of Bethany, was pronounced dead about an hour later, despite the efforts of a lawyer, Mr Henry' W. Nichols, his daughter, Leslie, and two of her friends.
I “Fie was bleeding profusely,” Mr Nichols said. “His tongue was sticking out. There was a very faint pulse. “And all this time, there were people passing by. People even stepped over him.”
Mr Nichols and his daughter were driving to the city centre when they saw the man face-down on the sidewalk in the heart of the city’s business district. Mr Nichols turned his car around and went to the man’s aid. . A crowd of curious onlookers stood well away from the man as the emergency workers' loaded him on to a stretcher and into an ambulance.
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Press, 18 September 1976, Page 7
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