Road bully blocks ambulance

[Ahtong]

Road bully blocks ambulance, patient dies

 

An orange-coloured Smart car failed to give way even after the ambulance's driver honked and flashed the front light. -The China Post/ANN

 

Sun, Dec 26, 2010

The China Post/Asia News Network

 

A CAR driver was accused yesterday of failing to give way to an ambulance carrying a seriously sick old woman to the Cardinal Tien Hospital in Xindian District of Xinbei City on Friday evening, according to the Xindian fire division.

 

The fire division dispatched an ambulance to Zhongxing Road of Xindian District at 6.21 pm to rush an 86-year-old woman surnamed Yu, who was in a critical condition and almost showed no vital signs, to the hospital.

 

But when the ambulance reached the intersection of Beixin Road and Dafeng Road, one orange-coloured Smart car failed to give way to the ambulance, even after the ambulance's driver honked and flashed the front light. Instead, the private car driver once attempted to brake, making the ambulance almost "kiss" the small car.

 

Finally, the private car stopped by the roadside, but the driver rolled down the window and showed the middle finger toward the ambulance to vent his anger over being forced to give way.

 

Outraged by the unfriendly gesture of the car driver, the ambulance officer, after sending the patient to hospital, filed an accusation with the police station against the private car driver on charges of obstructing the implementation of public duty.

 

The police station will ask the car driver to explain his behavior in the case.

 

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