Road shuts after emergency

Accident

Name ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... Address ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... .................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Postcode ............................................................................................ Date of birth .................................................................................... Telephone ................................................................................................................................................................................................... Email ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... Lincoln Road in Peterborough was closed on Saturday night to allow the air ambulance to land after a woman suffered a cardiac arrest

Police were called by the ambulance service at 9.50pm to reports of a woman in cardiac arrest at a premises in Lincoln Road.

Officers assisted with a road closure to enable the air ambulance to attend the scene. A spokesman for the East of England Ambulance Service said: “We were called at 9.43pm to Lincoln Road, Peterborough, on 13th May to a report of a woman who had collapsed and was not breathing.

“A community first responder, rapid response vehicle, ambulance officer, ambulance crew and response car from Magpas were dispatched.

They treated a woman in her 50s who was in cardiac arrest. “Following treatment at the scene, she was resuscitated and taken by land ambulance to Papworth Hospital in a critical condition.”

The road was opened shortly after the woman was taken to hospital.