American victim seeks caring honeymooners

Kimberley Jones, with fiance Paul Rodler, is looking for the couple that stayed with her after she was hit by an SUV in San Francisco in 2010.

An American woman wants to track down a honeymooning couple from New Zealand who held on to her while she was injured and bleeding on a busy San Francisco street.

Kimberley Jones, 51, was on her way to work as an art therapist at a local hospital when she was hit by an SUV on Market St - one of the city's busiest thoroughfares.

Her last memory before the accident was standing at the door to exit the stationery store she'd stopped at on her way to her work.

"I had no recollection from then until I woke up in San Francisco General Hospital."

Ms Jones, 46 at the time, was treated at the city's top trauma unit for injuries including broken ribs, a bruised lung and a brain injury.

Some months after the accident she went back to the stationery store to try to recount what exactly had happened to her on the afternoon of May 26, 2010.

The storekeeper told her about the Kiwi couple. However, he knew little of them beyond the fact that they were from New Zealand and on their honeymoon.

Ms Jones said over the years she had often thought of the couple who'd stayed with her until the ambulance arrived.

She described her amazement at the fact that the then newly married couple, from the "other side of the planet" were there in San Francisco holding her at her time of need. "It's a beautiful portrait of humanity."

Now, as Ms Jones looks set to celebrate her own marriage in the New Year, she hoped to be able to thank the Kiwi couple for their help.

Now she'd had the time to heal from her earlier injuries, she felt called to try to find them.

"I would do anything to simply say thank you."