POLICE in the New Forest have criticised "impatient" motorists who blasted their horns because they couldn’t get past an ambulance helping a young child who had stopped breathing.
The ambulance was parked up in Lyndhurst high street on the afternoon of Thursday, May 19, while helping the one-year-old child.
The young girl was saved by the ambulance service and the village’s first responders.
She has now been discharged from hospital and is back home with her parents.
However, during the medical incident motorists were sounding their horns as they struggled to drive past.
A New Forest Heart Cops spokesperson said: “It’s a shame that while the emergency services were looking after the child some motorists felt it necessary to impatiently sound their horns because they couldn’t get past the ambulance.
“Please always be patient in an emergency.”
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