Woman gets £522,000 ambulance delay payout

An exhibitions manager at the Natural History Museum who had to leave her job when she developed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after she was trapped on a bus has won £522,379 damages.

Ceri Leigh, 50, claimed that her psychiatric damage was caused by the delay in an ambulance arriving after she dislocated her right kneecap and was unable to move from between the seats of the bus she had boarded at Wimbledon station, south west London, on her way home from work in November 2008.

Ms Leigh said she could not sit or stand and was screaming in agony for 50 minutes while well-meaning passengers tried to help and held her down to stop her moving, which added to her feeling of helplessness.