An elderly couple were 'holding hands and crossing the road' when they were hit by a car in a car park outside Salford shopping centre, an eyewitness has said.
Emergency services descended on the car park, outside the precinct and Tesco supermarket, at around 12.30pm on Wednesday afternoon (September 6).
A horrified eyewitness, who ran over to help the man in his 70s and woman in her 80s, said the pair had been 'crossing the road' in the car park and 'holding hands' at the time before he claims they fell to the ground and were dragged underneath the vehicle. Try MEN Premium for FREE by clicking here for no ads, fun puzzles and brilliant new features It is understood the driver, a 72-year-old man, suffered a 'medical incident' behind the wheel and was also taken to hospital from the scene after the collision. "I was picking my son up from college and went and parked up.
As I was sat in my car, I could see the two elderly people ready to cross at the zebra crossing," the witness told the M.E.N. "As they walked across holding hands, a car stopped so it looked like the driver had seen them.
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