Family of man killed in car crash in Sheffield pay tribute to him
Those who knew Christian Marriott say he lived to help others it will come as a bitter blow that after one final act of selflessness it’s also how he died the father of two was out with his sons and wife on a walk when he was struck by a car in Sheffield he’d
Intervened to help give first aid to a woman he saw lying unconscious in the street today in a statement his family joined those paying him tribute Chris was a wonderful husband dad brother uncle and friend to many the circumstances of his death although tragic and unfathomable to us his family
Show the sort of man he was to go to help rather than to turn away the woman he was trying to assist was injured in a violent disturbance involving a number of people footage of that afternoon shows the street swirling with police activity and desperate attempts to move a vehicle
And all of the sudden the police start coming and the ambulance and someone one told me there is a people underneath this car the people try to push the car up in order to pull the people underneath this car collided with Christian the woman he was trying to
Help and others she remains in hospital with life-threatening injuries two men were arrested in connection with the case a 23-year-old and a 55-year-old the tributes left to Chris at the scene of his death offer just a small snapshot into how he lived and how widely he was
Loved as well as sharing their grief his family are asking anyone with information to come forward for a man so Central to his church and Community this will be an irreparable loss but they’ll hang on to their memories of a Good Samaritan taken too soon shinki Mar Sky News
The family of father-of-two who died after being hit by a car while trying to help a stranger have said his death shows “the sort of man he was – to go to help rather than to turn away”.
Chris Marriott was killed after a car ploughed into him as he gave first aid to a woman.
Sky’s Shingi Mararike reports from Sheffield.
Read more here: https://news.sky.com/story/chris-marriott-family-of-good-samaritan-killed-in-car-crash-say-his-death-shows-the-sort-of-man-he-was-13039055
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