A PENSIONER who was left stranded when her electric wheelchair broke down on a busy road is trying to find two young ‘good Samaritans’ who stayed with her until a taxi arrived.

Kath Cleveland, 71, was driving her wheelchair down Atlas Road in Darwen, towards the town centre, when it ran out of electricity.

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Unable to walk, she had to sit in the street and wait for a black cab to arrive to get home.

Concerned for her safety, two teenagers came to her aid and chatted with her for an hour, making sure she got safely into the taxi.

Now, Mrs Cleveland, of Devonport Court, Blackburn, wants to trace the boys to give them a special gift and also take them out for dinner.

The mother-of-two said: “I went to my children’s dad’s to drop some stuff off and as I came down past the railway bridge, on my way to the market, my wheelchair stopped.

“I mustn’t have charged it up properly.

“I thought, ‘if I just sit here someone might see me’.

“Two lads came – they were about 16 or 17 – and they were really good.

“They sat and waited with me for an hour. They said they would not leave me.

“They were only young lads and they said they lived nearby. One looked like Elvis Presley and one looked like Bob Dylan.”

Mrs Cleveland, who has been in a wheelchair since 1981 and is unable to walk having suffered four strokes, said she wanted to thank the boys for helping her.

She said: “I want to find them and take them out for something to eat.”

“They were brilliant and I would have been sat there on my own and could have been very vulnerable.

“I wonder if their parents know because if they were there they would be so proud.”

Councillor Brian Taylor, Blackburn with Darwen Council’s Older People’s Champion, said: “It shows there is no breach between young and old.“It is good to see and hear about things like this and the public-spiritedness of those two guys is brilliant.”

“I am really pleased about this.”

If you helped Mrs Cleveland or know who helped Mrs Cleveland did, please call reporter Dan Clough on 01254 298212 or email daniel.clough@nqnw.co.uk.