London Ambulance Confirm Man Who Collapsed on Broadway Suffered Cardiac Arrest


Man in seventies treated at scene by paramedics and taken to hospital as priority

London Ambulance say that the pedestrian who collapsed outside Fulham Broadway this morning, Tuesday April 5 was an elderly man who had suffered a cardiac arrest.

A spokesman for the service says: " We were called at 11.38am to reports of a person collapsed at Fulham Broadway and Fulham Road in SW6.

"We sent a single responder by car, two ambulance crews and an advanced paramedic to the scene.

"We treated a man reported to be in his seventies in cardiac arrest.

"He was taken as a priority to hospital."

The man's collapse close to Fulham Broadway shopping centre brought traffic to a halt in Fulham Road and surrounding streets, with buses diverted onto Harwood Road, for around an hour.