Ambulance given a parking ticket by jobsworth traffic warden while paramedics dealt with emergency on a bus
Stunned bus passengers looked on in disbelief as the warden slapped the fine on the vehicle's windscreen
AN ambulance called after a man fell ill at a bus stop was slapped with a parking ticket by a cruel traffic warden.
Stunned bus passengers looked on in disbelief after the stern warden slapped the fine on the emergency vehicle's windscreen as medics responded to the 999 call.
The shocking display happened in Caernarfon, North Wales, this afternoon.
A spokesman for bus company Express Motors said: "There was a medical emergency on one of our buses.
"Paramedics treated treated the man on the bus and he was okay.
"One of our drivers told us that a parking warden had ticketed a first responder parked at the bus stop."
The paramedics were community first responders - volunteers who use their own vehicles to attend medical emergencies.
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Gwynedd Council told the the parking ticket was issued to a “plain, unmarked vehicle” parked in the bus stop that appeared to contravene parking regulations.
A spokesman said: “We were not aware at the time that the driver of the unmarked vehicle was carrying out medical assistance.”
The council said it will now be discussing the matter directly with the ambulance service and arrange for the ticket to be rescinded if it did attend a medical incident.
A Welsh Ambulance Service spokesman confirmed one of its Community First Responders attended the incident, along with an ambulance crew.
Community First Responders are volunteers for the ambulance service and use their own vehicles to respond to incidents.
A spokesman added: "We were called at about 1.30pm on Thursday, February 2, to reports of a medical emergency at the bus station on Pool Side, Caernarfon.
"We sent a first responder and a crew in an emergency ambulance and a man was given a check-up at the scene."
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