An ambulance driver was taken to court for speeding while on a blue light emergency call, branding the proceedings as “a waste of time.”
Matt Wood, 27, was en route to Southampton Airport" data-wpil-keyword-link="linked" data-wpil-monitor-id="200733">Southampton Airport to pick up an “unstable” patient arriving from Guernsey when he was clocked driving at 90mph. Despite providing evidence that he was responding to a medical emergency, he was prosecuted, which he described as “embarrassing.
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