Son dies after a 999 error, mum claims

Oct 30 2008 by Sam Casey, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Son dies after a 999 error, mum claims

GRIEVING mum Carole Graham is considering legal action over an error which sent an ambulance to the wrong address as her son lay dying.

Yorkshire Ambulance Service dispatched paramedics to an Almondbury house several miles from 12-year-old Jordan Valerio’s Honley home.

His sister Daniella, 19, had called 999 after finding Jordan hanged by a karate belt in his bedroom at their Roundway home in Honley last November 30.

But an ambulance from the station at Marsh was sent to Almondbury because of a fault with an automated database which matches phone numbers to addresses.

When the mistake was realised a vehicle was sent to Roundway. But by then it was too late, claims Carole.