A car flipped onto its side at a busy roundabout in south Manchester on Wednesday afternoon. The incident sparked a huge emergency services response on Birchfields Road (A34), in Fallowfield, shortly before 1.30pm.
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After losing two loved ones, his job and his home within months, Guy* turned to 'the wrong people' for help. More than two years and a heart attack later, he had ulcers on his legs having been living in his car all that time, and was 'in a really bad way'.
He told the Manchester Evening News : "People seem to think that when it's homelessness, it's always drugs and alcohol, but it's not. I made a couple of wrong decisions and I had a bit of a perfect storm.
"My sister and my mum died. I lost my job and my house in the space of two months. People made me promises and then reneged on them.
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"I ended up in my car - just for a week, until I found somewhere to live. But one week became two weeks, two weeks became two months."
Two months ended up becoming two-and-a-half years and Guy's health had worryingly deteriorated. He was parked up at Sainsbury's, where staff and shoppers had noticed something unusual about the vehicle which was constantly in the car park.
It was at that point Guy was first introduced to the team at The Town House, who had been told about the man living in his car outside Sainsbury's. Kim Dean, a key worker at The Town House, banged on the side of Guy's car to get his attention.
"I had problems that I'd had for a long time," said Guy. He had suffered a heart attack, was dealing with ulcers and needed urgent attention from medics.
Guy was taken to hospital for treatment and eventually discharged - but still with no home to go to. He said: "You have to admit that you need help, but I was not ready to accept that help."
He returned to his car and his health began to
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