Supermarket delivery driver saves customer's life

A delivery driver has been praised for saving the life of a customer who was found unconscious.

Leandro Pinto Dantas, from an Asda supermarket in Poole, Dorset, said he could "sense something was wrong" when he arrived at the home of the lady in her 60s because she was not answering the door.

He explained: "The light was on, and the TV was on. I knocked on the door but didn't get an answer, so I called the contact phone number we had for the delivery but got no reply."

After taking a closer look through the window, Mr Pinto Dantas could see the customer lying unconscious on the floor and immediately called 999.

When the paramedics arrived, they treated the lady, who is diabetic, with glucose to raise her low blood sugars.

Mr Pinto Dantas believed it was fate that he called that day: "I wasn't down to work, but I swapped shifts. I'm just happy that I was there and saved her."

He put the woman's shopping away when she was being looked after by the paramedics, and when she went to the hospital he finished his shift.

A few days later, he went to check on her at home and took her some flowers.

To thank Leandro, the lady wrote to the Bournemouth Echo calling him a "wonderful chap".

"What he did was certainly going above and beyond what I would expect supermarket delivery drivers to do," she said.

"I don't remember much of what happened, only that I had a hypo [hypoglycaemia] and I came round with a paramedic giving me glucose to get my blood sugars up.

"My blood pressure wasn't quite right either so I was taken to hospital to be checked over and was allowed home the next day."

Since the incident, Mr Pinto Dantas has been nominated for an Asda service superstar award.

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