| Location | Sunderland |
| Age | 14 years |
| Cause of Death | Road Traffic Collision |
| Date of Birth | 14/11/1993 |
| Date of Death | 09/12/2007 |
| Visitors | 8,559 since 08/08/2008 |
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I Dedicate this site to my wonderful son, Daniel James Evans, who was tragically taken away from us on the 9th December 2007, after being hit by a red Renault Megane on the 3rd December 2007 on Statford Avenue, Grangetown, Sunderland.
The first we heard about Daniel's accident was at 3.50pm, when the Hendon Task Force knocked on my ex-husband John's door, and told him that Daniel had been knocked over by a car, but not to worry as his injuries were minor, and that the car had just clipped his leg! John send our daughter Nikita to fetch me as we only live 4 doors apart. I ran down to see what had happened and was told the same thing, Daniel was not seriously hurt.
The police were going to take us to the scene of the accident, so I sent Nikita up to stop with her stepdad Davey. The despatcher advised the police that the ambulance had been and left with Daniel, so it was arrainged to take us straight to Sunderland Royal Hospital. So we went in the police van, and en-route to the hospital the despatcher told the police that the ambulance was just attending as we were travelling. I was confused, but relived as the police were still stating that Daniel would be ok.
John and I were dropped off at the hospital, and we sat in the waiting room waiting for Daniel to arrive. It seemed like and eternity before John went for some air and noticed the ambulance arrive. I ran out and looked for Daniel in the back of the ambulance, I called his name, but got no response. The paramedic advised us to go and book him in, so we did as we were told. And we were taken into a quiet waiting room, where we waited for information on Daniel's condition.
When the doctor finally arrived she told us that Daniel had suffered a head injury and that he may have brain damage, and that he would be taken for a scan to see what the damage was. We were in total shock, how could this have gone from a hurt leg to a head injury? And so we waited.
Daniel had his scan at 6.00pm that evening, and we waited on the news. Again the doctor came in and told us that Daniel's injury was severe and that he had vomited in the ambulance on the way to the hospital, and that it wasn't a good sign. She told us that Daniel was going to be transfered to Newcastle General Hospital, and that he needed immediate surgery. We rang to inform family members and John's sister June and her husband Billy came straight to the hospital to support us.
We were allowed to see Daniel as they were waiting for the ambulance to arrive to take him to NGH, and we went into the resus room. Daniel lay on a bed with drips and tubes all over, I stroked his head and spoke to him and told him we were there and we would see him when he got to Newcastle. I was terrified, and horrified to see my beautiful son like that. The nurses were doing checks on him when I heard one of them say to the doctor that Daniel's eyes were not responsive. We were ushered out of the room and told that Daniel's chances of survival was in doubt.
Daniel was taken to NGH at around 7.00pm, he was taken under police escort as time was of the essence. We followed him through, all the time I was thinking that now he was in a hospital with the proper equipment and doctors to treat him Daniel would be fine now. Again we were taken to a small quiet room where we again waited for news on Daniel.
Daniel was in surgery for 6 hours and after surgery he was taken into intensive care. A consultant came in and told us that Daniel had suffered a massive head injury and that he was unlikey to survive....My world shattered. I couldn't think of loosing Daniel, he was my only son. He had only turned 14 a couple of weeks before, and we had just celebrated my birthday two days before the accident, Daniel had made me cakes. This was wrong! Very wrong.
For the next six painful days we watched and waited for any small sign that Daniel was going to pull through, we played him his favourite music and talked to him. And he was visited by all his loving family, even one of Daniel's primary school teachers came to visit him twice. I thought that knowing how much he was loved Daniel would fight and pull through, and prove them all wrong. What I didn't realise was that Daniel couldn't fight anymore.
Daniel was taken for a couple more scans during that time, and each time we were told that Daniel was not going to make it. We were told by the doctor that Daniel was under sedation and that on the 8th Dec they were going to stop the sedetive and see if Daniel responded. At 10.00 that morning the sedation was stopped and we waited to see if anything changed. We were told that the nurses were keeping an eye on the pressure in Daniel's brain, and that so far the pressure remained low. This is it I thought, he's going to come back.
I went home, and couldn't sleep, so I phoned the hospital at about 4.00am. I was told to come straight to the hospital as the pressure in Daniel's brain had increased dramatically. I phoned Daniel's godmother who raced through and took us to the hospital, we phoned other family members to attend.
Daniel was taken for another scan on the morning of the 9th Dec. As the rest of the family waited in the quiet room, John and I sat at Daniel's bedside waiting for news. Finally a consultant came in and told us that Daniel was brain dead and that when we were ready Daniel's life support would be turned off. At 12.15pm we made that decision, and the machines were switched off. We held Daniel's hand as he slipped peacefully away, and at 12.35pm he was pronounced dead. My beautiful precious boy was gone forever.....!
It hurt then and it hurts now, but I knew something was not right. Why had we been told that Daniel had only minor injuries and had hurt his leg? Why were we told the ambulance had left with Daniel, then when we were going to the hospital it was just arriving. I took it upon myself to find the answers!
At first I thought the Rapid Response paramedic had advised the police that Daniel had only injured his leg, and I worked out that the main ambulance had taken a long time to get to Daniel, when I knew that is should have only taken the ambulance 8 MINUTES to get to him, that's the target time. We were told that there would be an inquest into Daniel's death, so we decided to ask why? The answers we got were shocking!
Daniel's inquest was held on 11th Dec 2008, a year and 2 days later. When the rapid response paramedic took the stand, I have to admit I looked at her with disgust. I thought that she had failed Daniel, in her diagnosis of him. I had even got copies of Daniel's medical records for the time, so that I could figure out why she had done this. But when she took the stand I was shocked to hear that My Daniel had been fairly concsious and that he had responded to her requests, and that he had even tried to get up! From what I had been told and what I had read, Daniel had been unresponsive. Then we were shocked to find out that she had radioed despatch 3 TIMES for a main ambulance to arrive to transport Daniel to hospital. Even though a main ambulance is REQUIRED to back up a rapid response paramedic IMMEDIATELY.
The first time an ambulance WAS NOT AVAILABLE!
The second time an ambulance had been despatched and then REDIRECTED TO ANOTHER EMERGENCY! Even though it was travelling to a ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENT INVOLVING A CHILD PEDESTRIAN!!!!!
The third time an ambulance was despatched and arrived WITHIN 4 MINUTES of the Call.
So it emerged my precious Daniel had been lying in the road for HALF AN HOUR before a main ambulance arrived.
The 999 call is recorded at 3.29pm and the main ambulance arrived at 4.01pm.
All the initial information recorded in Daniel's medical records is INCORRECT!
The next thing was we had received a copy of the post mortem examination and this contained the same incorrect information.
So when the coroner asked the pathologist to give her evidence, I had hoped to ask if the delay had affected Daniel's chances of survival. The coroner had already decided to ask this question, to which the pathologist replied that she was not a head injury expert, and she only had the information in her report, but she felt it would not have made a difference! I was gutted. I had already sought the advice of solicitors who needed to know the answer to that very question, so that we could make a claim against the ambulance service for failing Daniel and make them accountable. The only way that could happen was if it would have made a difference to Daniel's survival. I was heartbroken again, as I had made a promise to Daniel that I would fight for him, as no child should be left at the roadside for half and hour after beeing hit by a car. But the coroner ruled that Daniel would not have survived either way.
However I'm not giving up on making the ambulance service accountable for failing Daniel, and I believe that Daniel would still be here if they had arrived on time. And something I want to know now is did the pathologist give her opinion on the new and correct information given at the inquest, or the incorrect information in her report?
So my fight for Daniel continues, as we have to live our lives without him. Daniel was a kind, sweet boy with a heart of gold and a smile to match. He did not deserve to die like that, failed by the authorities and those who were meant to save him.
Untill we meet again Daniel "Night, love you and sweet Dreams"
Love mam xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Love everlasting is etched in the sands of time.
~ Sandra S. Corona
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being to timelessness as it's to time ღ♥ღ
being to timelessness as it's to time,
love did no more begin than love will end:
where nothing is to breathe to stroll to swim
love is the air the ocean and the land
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love is the voice under all silences,
the hope which has no opposite in fear:
the strength so strong mere force is feebleness:
the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
~ ee cummings
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~ Why Walk When You Can Fly ~
In this world you've a soul for a compass
And a heart for a pair of wings
There's a star on the far horizon
Rising bright in an azure sky
For the rest of the time that you're given
Why walk when you can fly?
~ Mary Chapin Carpenter
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~ Life ~
By one great Heart the Universe is stirred:
By Its strong pulse, stars climb the darkening blue;
It throbs in each fresh sunset’s changing hue,
And thrills through low sweet song of every bird:
By It, the plunging blood reds all men’s veins;
Joy feels that heart against his rapturous own,
And on It, Sorrow breathes her sharpest groan;
It bounds through gladnesses and deepest pains.
Passionless beating through all Time and Space,
Relentless, calm, majestic in Its march,
Alike, though Nature shake heaven's endless arch,
Or mans heart break, because of some dead face!
’Tis felt in sunshine greening the soft sod,
In children’s smiling, as in mothers tears;
And, for strange comfort, through the aching years,
Men’s hungry souls have named that great Heart, God!
~ Margaret Deland
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*✫* Christmas Secrets *✫*
Underneath a winter sky
a distant train sings out the miles.
So I imagine, it may be,
that every mile brings you to me.
A promise made may still come true,
so I am waiting here for you,
if you don’t come, what will I do?
Who shall I tell my secrets to?
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Christmas bells ring out their chimes,
I hear them echo through the miles,
and moonlight shines upon the road
and trembles on the fallen snow
I look into the midnight blue
So many stars I never knew.
If you don’t come, what will I do?
Who shall I tell my secrets to?
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I look into the midnight blue
So many stars I never knew.
If you don’t come, what will I do?
Who shall I tell my secrets to?
~ Sung by Enya, lyrics by Roma Ryan ~
Copyright Ⓒ2006 EMI
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And still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth,
"You owe me."
Look what happens with love like that.
It lights up the sky. ♥ڿڰۣಌ
~ Hafiz
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Love is not something that comes from another.
It is a state of being that comes from within.
The Love that is inside of you is without conditions or expectations.
It is not limited or restricted by time and space in any way.
Unlike physical Love this Love will never diminish or fade with time.
It is eternal and will not ever let you down.
I promise you that it will always be there to let the Light in
and guide you safely Home.
Love connects each of us to one another
and is the underlying energy behind all things.
Love literally is everything. ♥ڿڰۣಌ
~ Paul Adkins
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~ Winter Snow ~
This is the time of wonder,
The season of the star...
Enraptured by its splendor,
Our thoughts go winging afar
Across the memories and miles,
Like angel melody,
Till every face is wreathed in smiles...
Hearts hold tranquillity.
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And as the snow falls, pure and white
On roof and street and hill,
Joy settles in our hearts tonight,
Glad tidings of goodwill,
On homes and hearth fires, peace descends,
And as the candles glow,
Flames of faith are kindled...
Love shines across the snow.
Author Unknown •∕̆̃̃•
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✻ A Winter's Epiphany ✻
Timeless thoughts of a winter’s stare;
eyes gazing over a landscape bare.
Memories drift on a blustery breeze;
dying light ushers in the freeze.
Reaching out for a grasp on the present;
stillness sets in, alone, and desolate.
Future unknown, outcome uncertain;
brilliance shadowed by a drawn curtain.
Path now set, laid before me known;
closing light now emanating from home.
Enter my homestead, heart filled with glee;
two eyes of the future peering upward at me.
Trusting in him to forge forward until fulfilled;
basis of strength, values I have instilled.
A wary mind at last permitted to rest;
reflecting on the realization of how I am blessed.
Ⓒ Michael A. Barron
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✻ Fairy Song ✻
Shed no tear! O, shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Weep no more! O, weep no more!
Young buds sleep in the root’s white core.
Dry your eyes! O, dry your eyes!
For I was taught in Paradise
To ease my breast of melodies,—
Shed no tear.
Overhead! look overhead!
‘Mong the blossoms white and red—
Look up, look up! I flutter now
On this fresh pomegranate bough.
See me! ’tis this silvery bill
Ever cures the good man’s ill.
Shed no tear! O, shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Adieu, adieu—I fly—adieu!
I vanish in the heaven’s blue,—
Adieu, adieu!
~ John Keats
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A Special Birthday
Author Unknown
Please God, make them remember that
Today is a special birthday.
Make them understand that
The memories don't go away.
Bless them, with ears to hear and hearts that care.
Enable them to listen while I share.
Shelter them that they may never know my pain.
Help them to help me know that my child's life was not in vain.
Help them to remember Lord that I wish
That my child was here
So we could still celebrate.
To understand that I still
Feel the nearness of my child.
To see beyond my smile and the
Words. "I'm okay."
Please God, just let one remember today
Is a special birthday!
♥ڿڰۣಌ
The morning glory blooms but for an hour,
and yet it differs not at heart
From the giant pine
that lives for a thousand years.
~ Matsunaga Teitoku ♥
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Underneath the growing grass,
Underneath the living flowers,
Deeper than the sound of showers:
There we shall not count the hours
By the shadows as they pass.
Youth and health will be but vain,
Beauty reckoned of no worth:
There a very little girth
Can hold round what once the earth
Seemed too narrow to contain.
~ Christina Rossetti
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In this world of change, nothing which comes, stays, and nothing which goes, is lost.
~ Anne Sophie Swetchine
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I Am
I am! The ages on the ages roll:
And what I am, I was, and I shall be:
by slow growth filling higher Destiny,
And Widening, ever, to the widening Goal.
I am the Stone that slept; down deep in me
That old, old sleep has left its centurine trace;
I am the plant that dreamed; and lo! still see
That dream-life dwelling on the Human Face.
I slept, I dreamed, I wakened: I am Man!
The hut grows Palaces; the depths breed light;
Still on! Forms pass; but Form yields kinglier
Might!
The singer, dying where his song began,
In Me yet lives; and yet again shall he
Unseal the lips of greater songs To Be;
For mine the thousand tongues of Immortality.
~ Voltaraine De Cleyre
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missing you so much
i dont really know what to say, i miss you so much and all the good times we had. i think about you every day your always in my head and heart can not wait till we meet again, loads more good times to come but untill then be good and wait for us all love you so much your little cuzzin nikita xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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