LETTER: Care and kindness after car accident

Because we hear in the media so much criticism of our public services, and the general feeling that people don’t care for one another any more, we thought it right to bring to a public forum the way the two of us were cared for on Friday December 13, a very wet and windy afternoon, when our car was written off after skidding into a tree on Forest Road between Pease Pottage and Colgate.

Because we were not going fast, our airbags did not go off, and we only suffered a few bruises.

But the first people we want to thank, the first to pass the scene, were two women, who came over to see how we were. One noticed that I had no signal on my phone, and immediately alerted the emergency services for us.