DRIVER GETS TICKET ASS HE TRIES TO SAVE DYING WIFE
Mirror
By Robert Stansfield
A DRIVER who pulled over when his wife had a fatal heart attack was booked by traffic wardens.
The distraught pensioner was forced to stop on double yellow lines outside a doctors' surgery to call 999.
He went with his dying wife, who has not been named, in the ambulance but returned to his car to find a £50 ticket.
Gary Mulreay, who runs a nearby barbers, said: "I was there to help get this poor woman out of the car and administer CPR to her. The doctors were very good and put a note in the window explaining it was a medical emergency. And when the wardens came we told them what had happened.
"But one of the wardens just ignored us and issued a ticket anyway. He said that the driver should have moved the car before going to hospital.
"I was absolutely stunned. The warden showed a total disregard for human life. He had absolutely no compassion. He actually said, 'It's not my problem, I've got a job to do'."
The elderly woman had a heart attack on the way to a doctor's appointment. Ambulance crews were at the scene outside St John's Wood Medical Practice, North London, six minutes after the call last Thursday.
But the woman was dead on arrival at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington.
A doctor at the surgery said: "We left a note in the car window to tell them what had happened - and the distressed husband still got a ticket. The whole episode beggars belief."
A spokesman for Westminster Council, which employs the NCP wardens, said: "Notes can be left on cars for a variety of reasons, and experience has shown that not all such notes are as they seem.
"Applying a consistent approach to enforcement protects parking attendants from potentially confrontational situations. However, in consideration of the information provided, this parking ticket has been cancelled."
b.stansfield@mirror.co.uk]
By Robert Stansfield
A DRIVER who pulled over when his wife had a fatal heart attack was booked by traffic wardens.
The distraught pensioner was forced to stop on double yellow lines outside a doctors' surgery to call 999.
He went with his dying wife, who has not been named, in the ambulance but returned to his car to find a £50 ticket.
Gary Mulreay, who runs a nearby barbers, said: "I was there to help get this poor woman out of the car and administer CPR to her. The doctors were very good and put a note in the window explaining it was a medical emergency. And when the wardens came we told them what had happened.
"But one of the wardens just ignored us and issued a ticket anyway. He said that the driver should have moved the car before going to hospital.
"I was absolutely stunned. The warden showed a total disregard for human life. He had absolutely no compassion. He actually said, 'It's not my problem, I've got a job to do'."
The elderly woman had a heart attack on the way to a doctor's appointment. Ambulance crews were at the scene outside St John's Wood Medical Practice, North London, six minutes after the call last Thursday.
But the woman was dead on arrival at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington.
A doctor at the surgery said: "We left a note in the car window to tell them what had happened - and the distressed husband still got a ticket. The whole episode beggars belief."
A spokesman for Westminster Council, which employs the NCP wardens, said: "Notes can be left on cars for a variety of reasons, and experience has shown that not all such notes are as they seem.
"Applying a consistent approach to enforcement protects parking attendants from potentially confrontational situations. However, in consideration of the information provided, this parking ticket has been cancelled."
b.stansfield@mirror.co.uk]
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