Residents living around Southmead Hospital have spoken of their shock at seeing patients being led away from A&E down their street and past their houses after a bomb scare sparked a major incident.
Patients who had been admitted with serious injuries or waiting to be seen at Southmead's A&E and the next door Minor Injuries Unit were evacuated from the hospital, and as staff calmly led them away, were taken to a nearby leisure centre. For the residents living around Southmead Hospital, which occupies a huge site between the north Bristol suburbs of Horfield and Southmead, the scenes outside their homes were not what they expected to see.
The most dramatic scenes happened in Dorian Way, the residential road that runs off Gloucester Road, past Horfield Leisure Centre and down to the A&E unit side of the hospital site.
