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I got a 'don't block my drive' note on my ambulance: this is what happened next

Crews are used to getting these messages but the tweet of this one spiralled out of control

My ambulance made headlines this month because someone left a note on the windscreen saying, “You may be saving lives, but don’t park your van in a stupid place and block my drive”. A colleague tweeted a picture of it that went viral.

We noticed it after arriving at hospital with a patient in a critical condition. It had been our first job of the day and when we had pulled up outside the property, people were waiting outside to meet us. I could tell from the expression of one man that he was very concerned. We weren’t going to be at the scene for long. The patient was vomiting blood. I told my colleague to get a stretcher.

Crew alerted an extremely poorly patient to hospital... minimal on scene time, arrived at hospital to find this note... this patient was TIME-CRITCAL. @OFFICIALWMAS http://pic.twitter.com/uGGAC2TUpI

Continue reading... November 23, 2017 at 06:37PM

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