Emergency call centre admits delay
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Emergency call centre staff have admitted a nearly 40-minute delay in sending an ambulance to a boy involved in a fatal bicycle crash.
Keegan Lawrence, 14, fell and landed head-first while jumping his bike at Paremata, north of Wellington, on October 25, 2007.
A schoolboy on a passing
train dialled 111 but an ambulance communications centre staff member sent only a police car to investigate.
When an ambulance finally arrived staff revived Keegan, but he died in Wellington Hospital the next day.
