Deaf Man Could Lose Leg After Hit-and-Run

<i><b>Deaf News: Hit-and-run victim left lying in road in Wales, could lose leg.</b></i><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://deafyouvideo.blogspot.com/2016/03/deaf-man-could-lose-leg-after-hit-and.html" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLb5QqM_-gdhSEZkqr290bWI06HBmG9xtdTJIrcMQcenlR0tYMdxo2p3CcBeS4iYT5jP1OiesgVCNUxUSCaGgiLAnsrKg7dv3uRldFZBC2MqGrMYYNtAqqO7Vj-_A3xpzC5WiaD3q0kqJj/s320/deaf-man-dean-cohen-hit-and-run.jpg" width="250" /></a>NEWPORT, WALES -- A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_loss" target="_blank">Deaf</a> man could lose his leg after he was left lying in the road following a hit-and-run in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport,_Wales" target="_blank">Newport, Wales</a> on Friday night.<br /><br /><br /><br />Dean Cohen, 51, is in a serious but stable condition at hospital after undergoing a 12-hour skin graft operation in a bid to save his leg.<br /><br /><br /><br />Mr Cohen, of <a href="https://www.streetcheck.co.uk/postcode/np206nz" target="_blank">Oliphant Circle, Newport</a>, had only popped to the shop on Malpas Road when he was hit by a car when crossing the road near the BP garage. The car did not stop and Mr Cohen, who has been Deaf since contracting meningitis as a baby, was left bleeding on the road.<br /><br /><br /><br />But fortunately a pair of Good Samaritans, Jenny Peacock and her husband Matthew from Newport, were driving along Malpas Road at around 7.50pm and stopped to help.<br /><br /><br /><br />Mrs Peacock said they had pulled over to help the man, who was conscious but bleeding with a serious injury to his leg.<br /><br /><br /><br />“We pulled him off the road and put him against the bus stop and waited for the police and an ambulance to arrive,” she said.<br /><br /><br /><br />“It was awful – his skin was ripped open and he was in a lot of pain.<br /><br /><br /><br />“He was Deaf so it was difficult to communicate with him.<br /><br /><br /><br />“He kept signing that he had been hit by a car.”<br /><br /><br /><br />The 35-year-old said neither she nor her husband had seen what had hit him and the victim himself could not remember what had happened.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/14341034.Hit_and_run_victim_left_lying_in_road_in_Newport_could_lose_leg/" target="_blank">SOURCE</a>

Deaf Man Could Lose Leg After Hit-and-Run

Deaf News: Hit-and-run victim left lying in road in Wales, could lose leg. NEWPORT, WALES -- A Deaf man could lose his leg after he was lef...

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