A woman who was featured in her local newspaper 38 years ago after becoming tangled in machinery as a toddler is now having her tale retold in a bid to trace the men who saved her.

The Essex Chronicle first described the horror of Lynn Kirk’s accident when it happened – when she was a 22-month old toddler.

Lynn was almost strangled by her own clothes and suffered lasting damage to her arm when she became trapped in a conveyor belt at a factory where her mother was working.

Two truck drivers rushed to help Lynn and after stopping the conveyor belt they managed to cut her free of the cogs in which her clothes had become caught.

Lynn said: “My face was blue and I was choking to death. My mother was screaming in desperation.”

Lynn hopes that by having her story featured in the paper again she might be able to trace the men who came to her aid and thank them for their quick thinking.

“I owe my life to them. All I knew was they were drivers one called Bernard Sproul the other Ronald Lewis – they would be in their early sixties now – and I have tried to track them down in the past.”

Lynn said: “The two men could be local or might come from anywhere in the south east of England but I would dearly love to track them down now and as the Essex Chronicle told of their heroism all those years ago it might, through its readers, be able to trace them now.”

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