BMW ‘blocks ambulance from getting patient to hospital’ over right of way row

A BMW appeared to block an ambulance trying to take a patient to hospital because the driver was locked in a stand-off with a Tesco delivery van over who had the right of way.

Businessman Neil Waugh had been down Tongdean Lane in Brighton, East Sussex when a Tesco delivery van approached from the opposite direction.


Both drivers refused to reverse to let the other pass, and were arguing in the road when a paramedic car and ambulance came up behind the BMW under a railway bridge. 


Despite pleas to Mr Waugh to move his car and let the ambulance pass, the businessman refuses to do so, and denies blocking its path.


‘You are obstructing a patient getting to hospital,’ one paramedic tells Mr Waugh.


‘I am not,’ My Waugh replies.


He adds, gesturing to another driver:



The paramedics quickly lose patience with Mr Waugh. One of them tells him ‘get in the car and move’ before the other adds: 


‘move, you fool.’

Mr Waugh has filed a formal complaint to South East Coast Ambulance Service but now admits that ‘maybe I should have just reversed.’

‘I’ve have been subjected to mob rule on social media,’ he said.


‘I have been portrayed as the kind of person who would rather let someone die in an ambulance than move my car and that’s not the case.’



A spokesman for South East Coast Ambulance Service urged 

drivers to listen to paramedics and ensure they do not obstruct ambulances.


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