STAFF at a Powys supermarket have been praised after attending to a customer who fell and broke his leg in the car park.

The man, whose identity has not been revealed, broke his leg on the afternoon of Saturday, August 31, after suffering a fall in the car park at Llandrindod Wells’ Aldi store, located on Station Crescent.

A member of the public intervened to help the man, with store staff also coming to his aid.

The local resident who assisted also captured photographs of the incident, and contacted the County Times to highlight the fact that the man spent at least 90 minutes on the car park waiting for emergency services to arrive.

The car park is overlooked by Llandrindod War Memorial Hospital, located across Tremont Road.

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Although the man was likely taken to hospital in Hereford, Abergavenny or elsewhere following his fall, Powys Teaching Health Board announced recently that opening hours at the spa town hospital’s Minor Injuries Unit (MIU) are reducing from this month.

In Llandrindod, the MIU will go from being open from 7am to midnight seven days a week to 8am-8pm every day. 

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“The gentleman was lying in Aldi car park with a broken leg with the hospital in the background,” said the member of the public who took the photo.

“He was waiting one-and-a-half hours when the picture was taken.”

He asked: “Staff at Aldi were very good. He was in good spirits.”

An Aldi spokesperson said: “We want to thank our colleagues in Llandrindod Wells for the help they gave. We wish him the very best for a swift recovery.”