Monday, May 15, 2006

Coach trip continues with dead pensioner on board

When 40 pensioners from southern Skåne were on their return coach journey from an art tour in Vienna, one of the participants, an 82 year old woman, died. But the tour leader and coach driver, mindful of their tight schedule, refused to stop.

"It might sound cynical," admitted the tour leader, who explained that there would have been so much bureaucracy and hanging about if they had handled the situation differently, and that they had not wanted to arrive back in Sweden late.

Only when they were on the ferry was SOS Alarm in Copenhagen alerted. The dead woman was taken into the care of ambulance staff on the Danish side.

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