In a statement, the Metropolitan Police said: “Police were called at 11.26pm on Sunday, 14 April, to reports of a road traffic incident involving a car at Staples Corner retail park. “It is not believed that any other vehicle was involved in
A three-year-old girl has been hit by a van in Manchester this afternoon, prompting an air ambulance to scramble to the scene. Police have cordoned off the main road in Hindley as they deal with the incident. The North West Ambulance Service
A Glasgow student is driving an ambulance 3,000 miles to Gaza to assist humanitarian relief efforts. After buying a second-hand ambulance in January, Umran Ali Javaid, a master’s student at Glasgow’s Caledonian University, set off on March 21 from the Scottish city
A “serious incident” on a major stretch of UK motorway has sparked travel chaos this afternoon. Emergency services including an air ambulance has rushed to the scene on the A1(M) in Hertfordshire at around midday on Wednesday, April 3. An update on
A video shows the shocking moment an ambulance exploded into a fireball, just after dropping off an elderly patient at her home. David and Marilyn Brinklow were enjoying a cup of tea when they heard a loud bang and saw their front
The M60 motorway is closed this afternoon due to a ‘serious incident’. The air ambulance has landed at the scene of the incident between J23 and J24, and police are also in attendance. The clockwise carriageway of the motorway is completely closed, and
The first ambulance service in the United States reportedly rolled to the aid of patients in Cincinnati, Ohio, on this day in history, March 28, 1866. “For many years, Bellevue Hospital in New York claimed to have introduced the first citywide ambulance
An ambulance driver is facing jail after a newly qualified paramedic was killed when he made a wrong turn and crashed into a cement lorry on a 999 call. Alice Clark, 21, had only been in the role for two months before
A town in Australia experienced a horrifying plague of bats as thousands swarmed the skies. Locals in Ingham, Queensland, were forced to stay indoors as swarms of the blind mammals flew around the town during the super-rare incident in 2020. Residents were hesitant
Figures for nine ambulance services show insurance costs had spiked by 56%, going from £10.96 million in 2018/19 to a projected £17.14 million in 2023/24. Volatility in the price of fuel has also seen expenditure go up by almost £4.5 million over