The birthday excitement turned to horror when the 17-year-old hit a branch in the road as they rode through Betton, coming off the bike and breaking his wrist and his pelvis in three places.
A mum has told how her seriously-injured son asked "am I going to die" as he waited three hours for an ambulance at the roadside after a crash.Ethan Gamble with his family outside their Market Drayton home
However the birthday excitement turned to horror when the 17-year-old hit a branch in the road as they rode through Betton, coming off the bike and breaking his wrist and his pelvis in three places. It is the latest in a series of shocking cases which show the severity of the strain on the ambulance service in the county – driven by long handover times at hospitals, and problems with discharging medically fit patients from hospitals to beds in the community.
Throughout the day the trust's ambulances lost more than 1,900 hours waiting outside hospitals in the region. Mrs Gamble said she did not want to consider what would have happened without the help of those who had stopped.The 39-year-old, who works at Muller in Market Drayton, praised the"amazing" actions of the ambulance staff when they arrived, but said they wanted answers over why they had been delayed so long.
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