Watch: Moment Ambulance is Blocked by LTN From Reaching Baby Suffering Seizure
A mother has slammed a low-traffic neighbourhood scheme (LTN) after an ambulance was blocked from reaching her home. The Mail has the story.
Charli Panter, 34, had called 999 on New Years Eve after her 10-month-old daughter, Nola, began having a seizure.
But the mother watched in horror as the ambulance became stuck on the other side of planters installed to stop traffic.
Video footage shows the moment an ambulance speeding to the house is stopped by a block in its path and is forced to divert round the corner.
Two paramedics can then be seen walking down the road, carrying medical equipment with them before the ambulance eventually arrives after a detour.
Ms. Panter said the ambulance then “needed to be navigated” around the LTN scheme to pull up outside.
She said: “Nola was burning hot and then she started having a seizure in my arms, she was shaking and rigid.
“My partner, Nick, called 999 as her lips turned blue and she was silent – we were terrified.
“I know seizures can be damaging so the longer it was going on the worse effects we feared.
“It never occurred to me we’d need to direct the ambulance on how to navigate around the planters. The paramedics said it was a nightmare getting to the house because of it.
“We have questioned how emergency services would know to travel around the estate (after the filters were installed) but we just never thought it might be to get to us.”
Nola, who was taken to hospital where doctors said she had suffered from a febrile seizure, has since fully recovered.
Worth reading in full.
Research from the TaxPayers’ Alliance last year found that 239 ambulances in London had been delayed by LTNs from reaching call-outs for potentially life-threatening injuries and conditions.
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If the child had died would Mr Khan be guilty of manslaughter I wonder, or are deaths as a result of collateral damage in the protection of the greater good?
That Khant needs stringing up.
They killed tens of thousands in the UK alone during covid, and no convictions have been or will be made. What’s another child to the tally?
Premeditated murder. He knew these situations would arise.
You got it right the second time. ——–The squirming parasites always have their backs covered. ——–They are following the “science”. ——It was “science” that told them they need to prevent asthma and to save the planet, and this country has forced itself.in law to reduce emissions of CO2. So Khan can argue he is only abiding by the law. ——-The establishment have us by the short and curlies.
LTNs are safe and effective.
You forgot – ‘…studies show’
This is as a consequence of the amalgam of ideology and bureaucracy. It is a deadly and volatile mixture.
“You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.”
T. Sowell
“Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience”
Adam Smith
Or as someone once pointed out—-a tyranny that terrorises you for your own good is the worst kind because it never sleeps.
I was recently talking to a man who loves living in a closed road in a North London LTN, because it is so pleasant and peaceful. I said, so you can drive down my road, but I can’t drive down yours, then. Answer came there none.
Many years ago High Streets made pedestrian only zones. This was to help with increasingly clogged high streets which were often built 100 years ago before anyone had motor cars. This was not a war on cars. It was maybe common sense and necessary. But the important thing is that the high streets were not blocked. Vehicles cold still go up the street eg disabled drivers, emergency vehicles etc. ——-Complete block of a street is bad policy as the example above shows.
Ridiculous, but if she was in sighting distance of the trapped ambulance why on earth didn’t she carry the child over to them, or couldn’t they walk over to the child?!