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SAT NAV CAUSES AMBULANCE BUNGLE
90-min Satnav trip to take girl to hospital 10mins 999 RAGE:
By Jeremy Armstrong
AN ambulance took almost 90 minutes to collect a girl and take her to hospital 10 minutes away after satellite navigation blunders.
The crew was misdirected by the equipment to the wrong street, eventually reaching road crash victim Chloe Banks after 32 minutes.
Chloe, 10, kept asking her mum "Am I going to die?" as she waited.
The ambulance spent 14 minutes at the scene. The crew then took 40 minutes to reach the hospital 10 minutes away after its satnav system sent it through villages instead of by the main road.
Chloe's mum Maggie, 39, said: "We told them it was not the quickest way to go. The driver was really apologetic, but he said he had to follow the system."
She added: "It took the ambulance an age to get there. I don't think that the delays were acceptable."Yesterday ambulance chiefs apologised. Watchdogs said satnav systems would now be closely monitored.
Complete article includes a time breakdown of the trip: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17083544&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=sham-bulance--name_page.html