THE Scottish Ambulance Service has been fined £55,000 after the death of a woman who was thrown from her wheelchair as she travelled in a passenger transport vehicle.
THE Scottish Ambulance Service has been fined £55,000 after the death of a woman who was thrown from her wheelchair as she travelled in a passenger transport vehicle.
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EWAN FERGUS
May Jean Morris, who was 78, was being driven to hospital for kidney dialysis treatment when the vehicle carrying her was involved in a low-speed accident in Renfrew Road, Paisley, in December 2008.
Although her wheelchair was secured by webbing straps, Mrs Morris was only held in by a nylon lap belt which was part of her wheelchair – contrary to the ambulance service's protocol for transporting wheelchair-using passengers.
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