Motorists Disregard Ambulance— Ambulance men in Sydney are complaining against motorists who refuse to give way to ambulances sounding their sirens and speeding on errands Of mercy. An injured man, whose admission to hospital was delayed for 10 minutes because motorists ignored an ambulance ' siren yesterday, died in hospital to-day. The hospital authorities said that the delay in this case, where the man urgently needed shock treatment and blood transfusions, might have made a difference between life and death.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 277, 4 September 1946, Page 8
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