A devoted family man who suffered a heart attack at work told his wife, ‘Don't worry about me, I’ll be fine’, moments before he died as the ambulance taking him to hospital crashed into a wall.
Despite suffering the heart attack, Trevor Bailey returned to his home near Pocklington in the East Riding of Yorkshire before an ambulance was called to take him to hospital. He walked to the ambulance and was placed on a stretcher.
The inquest in Hull into his death on April 22 last year heard how the ambulance was heading along the A1079 towards Castle Hill Hospital when it began to overtake an HGV. The HGV’s offside rear indicator was not working and it veered slightly to the left before turning, which the medical care assistant Gemma Sumners, who was driving the ambulance, assumed meant he was giving way.
