Paramedic's fury as car blocks ambulance attending to an incident

Staff writer
Paramedics have released photographs of a car parked behind an ambulance - blocking the vehicle and delaying a patient from being taken to hospital. See NTI story NTIBLOCK. Crews from West Midlands Ambulance Service took the pictures when they returned to their vehicle with a patient and found a car had parked directly behind them - meaning they struggled to put the stretcher inside.

A paramedic on call in the West Midlands has released photos of some truly shocking parking. Simon Wong, working for the West Midlands Ambulance service, tweeted photos of a Nissan Juke which parked so close to his ambulance, the crew were unable to get a stretcher in the back.

He wrote: "Attended a 999 call. When returning to ambulance with PT to go to hospital cars had blocked us in front & back despite us parking on double yellows with our rear light flashing.

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