A DRIVER has been caught on video repeatedly blocking an ambulance on call.
The video was filmed with the ambulance’s dash cam and has been described as the worst case the emergency service has ever seen.
The ambulance was responding to a man who had collapsed when a red Suzuki Vitara repeatedly blocked the paramedics.
Albert Butler from Reading has been sentenced to eight months in prison for dangerous driving and obstructing an emergency vehicle.
The car started to block the ambulance when it was driving along the A4 near Reading towards Maidenhead.
At the beginning of the video, the ambulance manages to overtake Albert Buttler’s car.
But he then overtakes the ambulance again and slows down when in front of it.
The ambulance continues along the A4 and Buttler overtakes other vehicles that were allowing the ambulance to pass.
At the end of the video, Buttler moves to the other lane of the road as the ambulance tries to overtake his car, blocking it.
Investigating officer Sergeant Matt Cadmore, of the roads policing unit based at Taplow, said: “The manner of Butler’s driving was completely unacceptable.
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“In deliberately attempting to hinder the progress of this ambulance, he was putting another road at great risk, and at the same time, delaying an emergency vehicle en route to a medical emergency.”
Mark Ainsworth, director of operations at South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust said that it was the worst standard of driving suffered by one of their hard-working ambulance crews.
