Ambulance delays during power cut possibly contributed to father’s death, coroner rules

Peter Coates’s family welcome end to years pursuing answers after he died when outage stopped oxygen machine

A family has welcomed a coroner’s conclusion that ambulance delays possibly contributed to their father’s death in 2019 after enduring “years of distress trying to pursue answers”.

The family of Peter Coates said they had been met with “delays and resistance” from a regional ambulance service as they tried to discover the full circumstances of his final minutes.