WHEN the owner of a narrowboat hurt his leg and was unable to stand he called an ambulance, but it could not park anywhere near Boggs Lock on the Staffs & Worcs Canal near Gailey, where his boat was moored.
It was discovered that the boat was about a mile from where the West Midlands Ambulance Service paramedics could park their ambulance, too far to carry him on a stretcher, after assessing him and finding him unable to walk, Alan Tilbury tells us.
Offered to transport patient
But luckily, Richard Gray of Birmingham and Midland Marine Services was working nearby, and saw the dilemma, so offered to transport the patient on the work boat, that the paramedics quickly accepted, the boat then transporting them all to the ambulance parked by the side of the canal.
The patient was then moved into the ambulance and taken to hospital for treatment.