Elderly disabled man from Cowdenbeath thanks man for coming to his aid

Hugh Docherty, 74, was driving down Dunnikier Way in Kirkcaldy on Saturday morning at around 11.30 am when he punctured his tyre at the traffic lights at the Crematorium and had to pull in at Kirkcaldy High School’s car park.

As the rain began to pour down heavily, he tried to change the tyre but did not manage and was unable to get a hold of family members who were all at work.

Stressed and worried, Hugh who lives in Cowdenbeath felt vulnerable and did not know what to do.

Yet, after fifteen minutes of fretting, a man walking his two mixed breed dogs came to Hugh’s rescue.

"He asked me if I was okay and I explained the situation.” said Hugh, "He said he had tools in the car and he’d go home and get them and I asked him where he lived and he said Overton mains and that’s all the way up to the ASDA roundabout and that’s a big scheme and it’s raining heavily so I can’t see that boy coming back.”

However, the man returned to save the day.

Hugh said: “But he came back anyway after forty minutes in his Volkswagon golf and the man actually changed the wheel for me - it was so nice of him.

“I was just so soaking wet and stressed I never asked for his name.

"If it wasn’t for him I’d be stranded there for a long time- at least till mid-afternoon.”

"I’d just like to thank him very very much- I would like to be able to find out who he was.

“This man is a lifesaver and I was definitely lucky to meet this sort of person.

"Even on a dry day it’s not often you get people over to help so on a horrible wet day, it shows there are a lot of good people out there.”

Hugh described his guardian angel as a ‘quite tall’ and in his fifties man who works in Kirkcaldy.

He hopes that his rescuer reads his thanks or someone passes on his message of gratitude.

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