Mother dragged girl off road after she fell from ambulance

THE father of a teenage British girl who fell from the back of an ambulance on to a motorway yesterday told how his horrified wife helped drag her unconscious daughter out of the path of oncoming traffic.

Natalie Kathryn Dibden, 16, of Orchard Close, Charfield, Gloucestershire, suffered fatal injuries when she fell from the vehicle on the M5 in the early hours of Sunday morning. She died in Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.

Natalie’s father Steve yesterday described how his wife Sarah, who was following the ambulance in her car, helped pull her daughter off the road on to the hard shoulder.