{"id":357249,"date":"2026-01-07T15:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/357249\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T15:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:38:08","slug":"ambulance-allowed-to-refuel-on-way-to-peter-coates-in-redcar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/357249\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambulance &#8216;allowed to refuel&#8217; on way to Peter Coates in Redcar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Julie Tait was the more senior of the two paramedics on the ambulance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She told the inquest they asked control if they could refuel before they were allocated to Coates, who was classified as a category two case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Category two is the second highest level of emergency and allocated to people with serious conditions, such as a stroke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But once the call came in, they refuelled en route to Mr Coates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The coroner asked Tait: &#8220;Was it appropriate to refuel en route?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She replied: &#8220;We had been assigned a category two call but control gave us a direct instruction to continue refuelling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We don&#8217;t question what control tell us to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said she had since had training in refuelling and NEAS crews would now stand down from a job if they needed fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Julie Tait was the more senior of the two paramedics on the ambulance. She told the inquest they&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-357249","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\/357249","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=357249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357249\/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=357249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}