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Fatalities named in Newmarket ambulance crash

Photo: Rear of ambulance

Police are now able to name two people who died in the collision in December.

The crash occurred at about 7.30pm on Tuesday 19 December 2023 on the B1506 Bury Road between Newmarket and Kentford.

It involved two vehicles, a marked transport ambulance, that was carrying two people and a driver, whilst the car, a blue Volkswagen Golf, just had a driver.

Two people in the ambulance, the female driver and a male passenger, sustained serious injuries and were taken to Addenbrooke’s Hospital for treatment.

The second passenger, a woman, sustained minor injuries. 

The driver of the second vehicle, a woman in the Golf, also sustained serious injuries.

Subject to confirmation at formal inquest proceedings, the driver of the Golf, who died has been identified as 70-year-old Jane Blampied of Bury St Edmunds, while the male passenger in the ambulance who died, subject to confirmation at formal inquest proceedings, has been identified as 93-year-old Anthony Dawbarn of Newmarket.

The driver of the ambulance is now out of hospital.

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