Aaron Morris death: Durham biker crash victim’s wife Samantha tells of ‘pain’

Not realising how serious her husband’s condition was, she said she had spent time helping the ambulance crew.

“I did not know he was going to die and instead of holding his hand while the paramedics worked on him, I was running for equipment, I was running for scissors, I was cutting his clothes,” she said.

Coroner Crispin Oliver concluded it was “highly likely” Mr Morris, who suffered a cardiac arrest, would have survived had available specialist medical treatment been applied in a “timely manner”.

NEAS medical director Dr Kat Noble said the service “unreservedly apologised”.

“We accept that opportunities were missed to deploy a clinical team leader to this incident,” she said.

“The service fully accepts the coroner’s findings and has taken a number of actions as a result of its investigations.”