A YOUNG mum is furious at passers-by who ignored her pleas for help when her six-year-old epileptic son collapsed.

Sharon Chamberlain, aged 26, of Canal Walk, Chorley, said one woman motorist even stopped, wound her window down and drove off again without lending a hand.

"I was crying my eyes out and distraught," said Sharon, whose son Simon suffers from Lennox Gastaut Syndrome, a rare form of very severe epilepsy.

She added: "He could have been having a heart attack or been dead. They just didn't want to know."

Sharon said she was walking through the grounds of Eaves Lane Hospital when Simon collapsed and suffered a major fit on Friday.

She said the child was frothing at the mouth and had gone blue, adding: "I was shouting for help because he goes unconscious and I had to get him home so he could sleep it off."

Sharon was forced to leave her three-year-old daughter Jade with Simon while she went for help.

Nurses from the hospital eventually got the child into the building and phoned for a taxi to take them all home.

Simon, who is also mentally handicapped, autistic, hyperactive and suffers from behavioural difficulties, attends the Coppice School, Bamber Bridge, for children with severe learning difficulties.

Sharon said: "It's not the first time it's happened. People should be more understanding, especially with it being National Epilepsy Week this week."

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