Beedon mother thanks Newbury firefighters after supermarket trolley rescue

Megan Johnson was shopping with daughter, Lola-May Hitchman, together with Miss Johnson’s mother, Julia Davies, in Tesco, Pinchington Lane when her daughter’s foot and leg became trapped in the trolley.
“She was sat in the seat and must have tried to stand up and her foot slipped back into the seat and got stuck,” said Miss Johnson, adding her daughter’s foot was bent under her leg:
“She was like that for about ten, or fifteen minutes, she was panicking, I was nearly crying. I wanted to break it myself to get her out,” she added.
Staff at the store rallied round, placing ice on Lola-May’s leg and giving her a fruit drink to help calm her down, before attempting to remove Lola-May from the trolley before telephoning the emergency services.
Newbury firefighters arrived in five minutes and using bolt cutters released Lola-May.
“She was a bit scared, she didn’t know what was going on and clung to me,” she said.
Blue Watch manager, Lee Glover, said: “She was in tears when we got there, then she stopped crying,” he said.
The firefighters said Miss Johnson, proved absolutely amazing:
“We are very grateful,” she said.
“If Lola-May had been left any longer I was scared her blood circulation would have been cut off, her foot was turning blue, it was really scary. I am so grateful - and they came in such good time,” she said.
Last Friday (Nov 23) the family went to Newbury Fire Station to thank the Blue Watch firefighting team in person:
Lola-May, according to her mother, has since made a good recovery from her ordeal and was back to her normal self, apart from a couple of bruises, but had since remained wary of supermarket trolleys and insisted on being carried around the store instead.