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David Watch, 83.(Image: Avon and Somerset Police)<\/p>\nDavid was crossing a road when he was struck by a vanDavid Watch, 83.(Image: Avon and Somerset Police)<\/p>\n
A man, described as a “pillar of the community”, who was hit by a van and died in hospital, was a volunteer who sold poppies for the Royal British Legion.<\/p>\n
David Watch, 83 and of Warmley<\/a>, died after being hit by a van while crossing Victoria Road at around 8am on Thursday, October 9.<\/p>\n Avon and Somerset Police, as well as the ambulance service, attended the scene.<\/p>\n David was rushed to hospital but tragically died of his injuries later that day.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for Avon and Somerset Police<\/a> said: “Our thoughts remain with the family during this incredibly difficult time, who have received specialist support from a family liaison officer.”<\/p>\n David, who was known as Dave to friends and family, was born in Weymnouth in 1942 and moved to Warmley in 1970.<\/p>\n He worked for Bristol Churches Housing Association after serving in the Army<\/a>.<\/p>\n A family statement paid tribute to “well-liked” David.<\/p>\n The statement said: “David was well-liked by his neighbours and friends and loved by his wife Jean, his three adult children, and seven grandchildren.<\/p>\n \u201cIn recent years David enjoyed music and sport, and could be found selling poppies as a volunteer for the Royal British Legion, attending his church in Kingswood<\/a>, playing badminton in Keynsham<\/a>, playing snooker in Warmley or beating someone at Yahtzee.<\/p>\n \u201cDavid was a valued member and a pillar of the community, described as a gentleman with a dry sense of humour.<\/p>\n “He will be missed by us all, but we are grateful for his life, inspired by his legacy, and have peace about his eternity.<\/p>\n \u201cJean would like to express a heartfelt thanks to passers-by and neighbours from the surrounding houses who acted so compassionately in the immediate moments and days since.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David was crossing a road when he was struck by a vanDavid Watch, 83.(Image: Avon and Somerset Police)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[17542,9312,381,748,393,4884,29121,19406,16,15,32317],"class_list":{"0":"post-582000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-armed-forces","9":"tag-avon-and-somerset-constabulary","10":"tag-bristol","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-keynsham","15":"tag-kingswood","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-warmley"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115580668790060949","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}