{"id":355858,"date":"2026-01-06T21:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T21:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/355858\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T21:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T21:34:10","slug":"stuck-redcar-gate-stopped-ambulance-getting-to-peter-coates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/355858\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuck Redcar gate stopped ambulance getting to Peter Coates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After telling him the paramedics would be there &#8220;as quickly as they can&#8221;, an ambulance crew was allocated three minutes after his emergency call, with an estimated journey time from the Redcar station of less than two minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the gates locked shut and they were unable to find a manual override to get the ambulance out, the inquest heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A different crew eventually got into the house 47 minutes after the first call, but Coates had already died, the coroner heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement to the court, his daughter Kellie Coates said the family had not been told about the ambulance delay at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If the ambulance had got there in the two minutes they should have he would still be here today,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said she was &#8220;haunted&#8221; by the thought of the &#8220;desperation&#8221; her father would have felt as he awaited the ambulance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After telling him the paramedics would be there &#8220;as quickly as they can&#8221;, an ambulance crew was allocated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-355858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}