A Hampshire man was twice taken the wrong way to hospital by ambulance crews, due to faulty sat navs.

Leslie Palmer, 79, endured a 45-minute trips both times when it should only have taken 20 minutes.

But separate ambulance crews in separate vehicles told his wife of 55 years, Jean, that they had to use sat nav as that was the rule.

Mr Palmer was taken from his home in Bishop’s Waltham with an infection on June 3, with Mrs Palmer, 77, accompanying him to go to the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester, 11 miles away.

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