Charles William Needham was killed by a careless driver in February 2023 in Retford
Amongst the haze of flashing lights and panic outside, Nick Needham was oblivious. Nearly 90 minutes passed before his ex-partner received a phone call from the police.
"It ripped it out of us," explains Nick, 38, Charles' son. "I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Any normal person would own up to what they'd done." Nick, who lived with his dad, would've been back there too, but returned to the house to spend a post-work hour with the kids. It happened at half past five."I was ready to run out of the door to the scene to see what had happened," says Nick. "But they said no... you have to go straight to Sheffield. They told me he'd been airlifted.
Former miner Charles Needham had worked a variety of jobs before finishing his career at his local Morrisons. At the time of his death, he was just a couple of months into a long-awaited and deserved retirement, which was allowing him to spend more time with Nick's three children, Charlie, 14, Lola, 9, and Edward, 1.
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