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Ambulance bosses publicly shamed a man who shouted and swore at one of their paramedics because he couldn’t fit his car down a road while she was working on a patient.

The raging driver was filmed calling a female paramedic a “f***ing idiot” for stopping her ambulance on a narrow street in Runcorn on Sunday.

After the video went viral the North West Ambulance Service responded by offering to explain to shouting man “how every second counts when saving a life”.

A spokesperson said: “This man needs to ask how himself how he would feel if it was his grandparent, mum, dad or child that we were treating, would he be happy that we waste precious time searching for a better parking space?

“Our staff work day and night to save lives and do not deserve abuse from anyone for something as trivial as blocking a minor road.

“What was a minor inconvenience for him was a traumatic time for this patient and if he would like to get in touch so we can explain how every second counts when saving a life, we would be happy to arrange this.”

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The husband of the woman taken to hospital confirmed this morning her condition was “serious”.

Not content with moaning about her blocking the road, the motorist also screamed at the paramedic for not turning on her hazard lights.

He said: “Where’s his f****ng hazards? I can’t tell from down there. Can you explain that, you f**kin’ idiot?”

A resident filmed the incident on the corner of Union Street and Sewell Street to show “the abuse our paramedics face for parking in the street whilst saving a life”.

But when the ECHO visited the man’s house to get his point of view a woman at the door threatened to phone the police.

And she later shouted at an ECHO reporter for filing a report next to the man’s white 2011 Nissan Frontier.

A woman claiming to be the motorist’s daughter also defended him on Facebook, writing that he was not shouting at the paramedic but at another person who “was going at him”.

But other Facebook users were not so forgiving.

One user wrote: “I hope he doesn’t need an ambulance any time soon.”

Another commented: “I wonder how he’d be if it was his family member the paramedic was working on.”

A third user said: “Let’s hope him or his family don’t need to call out our brilliant emergency services.”