Articles Tagged: ambulance

Ambulance driver given speeding fine and penalty points on mercy dash with donated liver

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Apr 27, 2012

A dad-of-three has been fined £60 and had three penalty points slapped on his licence for speeding – even though he is an AMBULANCE DRIVER who was at the time taking a donated LIVER to hospital for a child's transplant!

10-year-old boy chokes to death after ambulance fails to find street on Sat Nav

By parentdish.co.uk, Mar 1, 2012

Kane Wade choked to death on a sweet after an ambulance couldn’t find his house on its Sat Nav to save him

'We always get drunk together' Mum tells shocked on-lookers as 11-year-old son is taken to hospital

By parentdish.co.uk, Feb 6, 2012

A mother who let her 11-year-old son get drunk in the street told horrified a onlooker "we always get drunk together".

Heart attack mum forced to ask friend for hospital lift after 45 minute wait for ambulance - despite living TWO doors from ambulance station

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Dec 22, 2011

Despite living just TWO doors away from an ambulance station, 36-year-old mum-of-two Louise Lewis, 36, was kept waiting for 45 minutes when she collapsed at home with searing chest pains.

Ambulance crew rush to save five-year-old, only to find the patient is a cat!

By Liz Stansfield, Aug 19, 2011

An ambulance crew called out to a five-year-old in cardiac arrest were surprised (and a little annoyed) to discover the ‘child’ was actually a family cat!