| The incident happened as the vehicle was heading for the main ambulance depot in Dundee for a check-up because the driver had complained about a noise coming from the patient carrier’s wheels.
Long tailbacks built up as the vehicle came to a halt just before 10am while travelling through the roadworks at Kingsway West between Liff Road and the Myrekirk roundabout, near the Alpine Foods frozen food depot building.
The breakdown meant motorists had to suffer added delays to their journey time, already affected by the dismal weather conditions this morning.
The vehicle, which it is believed operates in the Blairgowrie area, was making its way to the ambulance depot’s workshop at West School Road in Dundee — without any patients on board — when one of its back wheels came off.
Police attended the scene.
A spokesman for the Scottish Ambulance Service said, “The ambulance care assistant had dropped off a patient and was aware of a noise, and was taking the vehicle to the depot to be checked. Unfortunately it didn’t make it. We will investigate the cause of that.”
He added that all their vehicles are regularly inspected, maintained and serviced.
A spokeswoman for Tayside Police said, “Shortly before 10am this morning a patient transfer ambulance broke down on the A90 Kingsway West and blocked the westbound carriageway at the contraflow for a short time.
“Ambulance Control quickly had mechanics on scene and the vehicle was removed at 10.05am.”
Before the incident, traffic was moving through the Kingsway West roadworks at a sluggish pace from the Swallow roundabout. |
