Motorist abandons his Skoda at hospital car park entrance after ‘struggling to find parking space’ – causing chaos for other patients
It was 'chaos' until the driver returned an hour later
A DRIVER dumped his car in front of an entrance barrier after struggling to park at a busy hospital.
The man had been turned away from Colchester General after a problem at the ticket machine.
But instead of searching for nearby parking elsewhere, the unnamed driver abandoned his car by the rising barrier and walked off.
It meant one of the two entrances to the car park was blocked and a queue of traffic quickly built up behind the grey 16-plate Skoda.
Onlookers said it caused chaos for an hour until the driver finally returned to his abandoned vehicle.
"It was just madness," said one witness.
"We were in the queue and it was only when we got the barriers we saw what was going on.
"We thought maybe the barrier had broken then my partner said to me: 'There's no one in that car.'
"It got worse when a woman found herself behind the car.
"I suppose she just thought its driver was getting a tickets to go in but she was going crazy when no one would let her back in."
The driver, who was a seven-day car park ticket holder, moved his car from the barrier shortly after 2pm on Tuesday.
A Colchester General Hospital spokesman said: "There are two entrance points to our main public car park so this incident did not result in gridlock, but it did cause some disruption for drivers in the queue immediately behind the car for which we apologise."
We thought maybe the barrier had broken then my partner said to me: 'There's no one in that car.'
Witness
Earlier this week it was claimed a sick pensioner’s car was deliberately blocked in for hours by a doctor to “teach him a lesson”.
Mohammed Hossain’s daughter Rebecca complained to NHS England after she says her father was left “shivering in the cold” after a trip to his GP surgery in Chorlton, Manchester, last Thursday.
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