A talented teenage footballer may not have died had paramedics not been sent to the wrong location, a coroner has said.
Luke Bennett, 17, died after he was hit by 11,000-volts when a metal pole he was playing with touched overhead power lines. But an inquest into his death was told he may have survived had paramedics not been initially sent to a college almost two miles away.
Coroner Kate Bisset has now given the North West Ambulance Service 28 days to give more detail about training given to staff to help avoid a repeat of the tragedy. She has also asked for more answers from Electricity North West whose overhead power lines at Euxton Villa FC's ground delivered the shock to Luke and his two friends.
