Traumatic head injury survivor thanks ambulance crew

A man who survived being hit on the head by a piece of a 27 tonne crane has been reunited with the paramedic who saved his life. On a cold February morning earlier this year, Charly Dinnery from North East Ambulance Service took a call from a colleague of Kevin Tait, of Kenton Bar, to hear reports of him having been struck on the head by the crane at work. Just five minutes later, Paramedic Wayne Auton and Emergency Care Assistant Roy Hamilton arrived at the scene in Blaydon to find Kevin unconscious ...