A paramedic has blasted angry motorists for shouting at her after she blocked a parking space while battling to save the life of a patient.
Katie Tudor, a West Midlands Ambulance paramedic, took to Twitter to slam the ‘angry bystanders’ for their behaviour.
She tweeted: ‘Please don’t shout at me for blocking your parking space when I’m trying to coordinate the extrication of a pt in cardiac arrest!!
‘We are desperately trying to save someone’s life and could do without angry bystanders!’
The shocking incident happened in Abbey Hulton, Stoke-on-Trent, shortly after 1.40pm, last Wednesday.
Paramedic Katie Tudor (pictured) blasted angry motorists for shouting at her after she blocked a parking space while saving a patient’s life
She took to Twitter after the incident last week in Abbey Hulton, Stoke-on-Trent, where she was helping someone having a cardiac arrest
The crew performed CPR and administered advanced life support which continued en route to Royal Stoke University Hospital.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: ‘It was incredibly frustrating to hear of our staff getting abuse when they are trying to help a patient in their hour of need.
‘In this particular incident, our staff were trying to save the life of a patient who had suffered a cardiac arrest, the most serious type of call we attend.
‘In our line of work the patient must always come first. Our staff will always endeavour to move out of the way as quickly as possible or park in a clear space in the first instance but the nature of the job means we do sometimes have to park where we block someone in.
‘It is simply not acceptable that staff who are there to help people should suffer abuse from patients, their relatives or others at the scene.’
Plenty of Twitter users wrote in support of Ms Tudor and her line of work, with one saying: ‘Unbelievable! They wouldn’t be so quick to bark at you if it was their loved one needing assistance!’
Plenty of Twitter users came out in support of Ms Tudor and her line of work.
One wrote: ‘Unbelievable! They wouldn’t be so quick to bark at you if it was their loved one needing assistance!’
Another suggested a change to the law, tweeting: ‘Make it road traffic law, you will wait till emergency services vehicles are moved if they are responding to an emergency.’
Paramedics have spoken widely of the physical and verbal abuse they have received whilst performing their duties and there was widespread uproar after a man placed a sickening note on an ambulance in November.
Paramedic Tasha Starkey tweeted an image of the note which was left on the vehicle in Small Heath, which read: ‘You may be saving lives but don’t park your van in a stupid place and block my drive.’
The West Midlands Ambulance Service crew found the letter under the windscreen wiper after they transported an ‘extremely poor patient’ to hospital.
The patient later died at Heartlands Hospital.