Samantha said she “scooped her son up and ran” after he was injured in the aisle
A family’s movie night turned into their “worst nightmare” after a trip to Asda went horribly wrong. Samantha Rylance, 25, had popped into Asda in Liscard with her partner, Callum, and two children to get snacks for their movie night on Saturday, December 7 when her youngest son cracked his head open and needed to be rushed to hospital.
Samantha, from Seacombe, Wirral, told the ECHO how Kaelen, six, was playing in the aisle when he ran into a roll cage and cracked his head open. She wants to thank the “amazing” staff in the supermarket who immediately jumped to the family’s rescue.
Samantha said: “It was a nightmare. He [Kaelen] was messing about in the aisle, running up and down. He had run and turned around to look at me and his dad and had not seen the cage and ran straight into it. He bounced off it – it was one of the big roll cages – and smacked his head.
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“I didn’t know how bad it was at first, it was his dad, Callum, who picked him up and shouted to me ‘his head.’ He brought him over to me shouting Sam ‘his head,’ it looked like a scene out of a horror film. There was no skin, his head was just red with blood, it poured with blood.
“I just scooped him up, bearing in mind I’m 23 weeks pregnant, and ran with him. There was a trail of blood behind us, I was screaming for people to move out of our way. We ran to the pharmacy [inside Asda]. The woman in the pharmacy stopped serving everyone to help, she was amazing.”
The mum said the incident was her “worst nightmare,” adding: “I couldn’t function, my hands froze. She kept telling me to hold the cloth [to put pressure on the wound] but I couldn’t hold them. My brain went to mush, it was my worst nightmare.
“We had only gone in for some snacks. We’d planned on having a family movie night so we went to Asda to get some snacks to watch a film with and get some pyjamas. All Kaelen wanted was some strawberries but he didn’t manage to do that.”
Samantha wants to thank the people who stopped to help them. She said: “Everyone was amazing. The security guard helped calm my eldest son [Leighton-John, eight] who is autistic and was freaking out. He rang the ambulance and was lovely and the pharmacist was amazing.”
