Overview
- The 25-year-old accused is in a serious condition in Fiona Stanley Hospital’s ICU and was deemed unfit to attend court, with the matter adjourned to Thursday.
- He has been charged with criminal damage, endangering the life or health of a person, and obscene acts in public after allegedly smashing an ambulance windscreen with his head.
- Video shows the man clinging to the bonnet of a moving ambulance and breaking the windscreen; crew members were not physically injured and the vehicle was towed.
- WA Police apologized for arriving roughly 22 minutes after the initial call and said they will review rostering for major event days such as the St Barbara’s parade.
- St John WA and police have launched investigations, and the Ambulance Employees Association of WA says chronic regional understaffing left a patient transport crew vulnerable.