This is the moment a selfish driver delayed an ambulance crew from taking a patient to hospital.
A series of pictures taken by West Midlands paramedics show how a selfishly-parked car meant they couldn’t get the stretcher into the ambulance.
Images show just how difficult it was for the ambulance crews to carry their patient inside.
Crews took the pictures when they returned to their ambulance with their patient and found a car had parked directly behind them – meaning they struggled to put the stretcher inside the ambulance.
Pictures taken by West Midlands paramedics show how the selfishly-park car meant they were unable to get the stretcher into the ambulance
West Midlands Ambulance paramedic, Simon Wong, tweeted the pictures and 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.
‘Unable to get the stretcher on or off. #inconsiderateparking. It says Keep Clear on the ambulance for a reason.’
The paramedics, who were responding to a 999 call, tweeted ‘It says Keep Clear on the ambulance for a reason’
He later tweeted: ‘The helpful public eventually found the owner who moved their (car emoji) back a few feet to allow us to get the PT into the (ambulance emoji).
‘Driver said they were allowed to park there as their relative was disabled & didn’t understand what the problem was parking so close to the back of the (ambulance emoji).’
Recently a woman who abused paramedics and then left a note on an ambulance telling them to ‘move your van’ was handed a £120 fine.
Kirsty Sharman, from Tunstall, pleaded guilty to a Section 5 public order offence when she appeared at North Staffordshire Justice Centre on February 20, the Stoke Sentinel reports.
The 26-year-old was arrested on February 19 and held in custody following an incident which saw her leave an abusive note on the ambulance.
Crews took the pictures when they returned to their ambulance with their patient and found a car had parked directly behind them – meaning they struggled to put the stretcher inside the ambulance
It was parked in a disabled bay outside her home as it responded to a 999 call – but neighbours said she did not even have a car.
An offence of breaching a restraining a restraining order was dropped.
Sharman apologised to the magistrates in court for her actions.
Magistrate Chris Rushton said: ‘This was an absolutely despicable incident.’
She was also told to pay a victim surcharge of victim surcharge of £30 and costs of £135.
Appearing in the court dock at Newcastle-under-Lyme, Sharman, through her solicitor Hayley Keegan, offered her ‘most sincere apologies to the ambulance staff’
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: ‘We have a zero-tolerance policy towards people who abuse our staff whilst trying to help patients in their hour of need. It is completely unacceptable and it must stop.
‘As the vast majority of the public will appreciate, in our line of work the patient must always come first and therefore the nature of the job means we do sometimes have to park over a driveway or block a vehicle in.
If your loved one needed an ambulance, I’m sure you’d want an ambulance to park as close to them as possible to prevent a delay in their care.
‘After previous notes were left on our ambulances last year, we’ve received unimaginable support from the public for which we are immensely grateful.
Sadly, as this ambulance crew discovered yesterday, there are unfortunately still a handful of narrow-minded individuals who consider leaving vile abusive notes acceptable.’