AN AMBULANCE carrying a 94-year-old Okehampton women who had suffered a cardiac arrest was involved in a collision as she was taken to hospital. At 7.05pm on Tuesday the Westcountry Ambulance was en route from Okehampton to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital when it was in a collision. The lady had suffered a cardiac arrest 20 minutes earlier. She later died in hospital. The ambulance got to the junction of Magdalen Road and Holloway Street, Exeter when it drove very slowly through the red lights. The ambulance had almost cleared the junction when it was in collision with a van entering the junction from Holloway Street. Two people, both women, in the back of the ambulance who were working on the patient were slightly injured by the collision. The patient herself was not injured during the collision and was transferred to another ambulance and conveyed to hospital, where she later died. Police said it was clear from the damage that the collision speed was very low and could in no way have caused the death of the lady and the incident ws not therefore being treated as a fatal road traffic accident. The 36-year-old driver of the second vehicle involved from Ashburton was uninjured. Any witnesses to the incident are asked to contact the police on 08452 777 444 quoting log 1126 020506.
