An ambulance was vandalised and had its tyres slashed while paramedics were tending to a patient at the scene of an emergency. Paramedics were left in shock at Quantock Road in Risca in the early hours of Sunday, June 12 after the vehicle had its tyres let down, safety lugs removed from the wheel nuts and heater exhaust snapped.
Luckily the incident, which happened at about 2.20am, did not leave the patient in a critical condition - but the ambulance remains out of service. Kevin Crowther, service manager for the south east Wales area for the Welsh Ambulance Service, called the culprits “hugely irresponsible”.
“While dealing with a patient nearby, the ambulance vehicle was deliberately sabotaged,” he said. “It’s hugely irresponsible for people to vandalise emergency vehicles of any type, but more so at a time when the service is faced with high demand.
