My heart restarted when the ambulance hit pothole
A HEART patient told yesterday how a pothole saved his life – when an ambulance hit one with an almighty jolt
Grandfather Ray Lee, 65, was exercising when his heart went into a spasm, sending his heart rate soaring to 190 beats per minute.
But en route to Salisbury Hospital the ambulance nose-dived into a pothole. The jolt lifted Ray clean off his stretcher – but when he landed the monitors showed his heart rate had fallen to 60bpm.
Ray, of Wilton, Wilts, said: “I was told they would have carried out a procedure to stop the spasm in my heart, but driving over the pothole did the trick.”
He added that he will never complain about a pothole again.