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An ambulance carrying a critically ill toddler and her mother crashed on the M40, rolling down an embankment before being found by a passing motorist.
Molly Hockey was being rushed from Warwick Hospital to Horton Hospital in Oxford with suspected meningitis and was not strapped in, her family said.
The vehicle left the road at high speed near Banbury, Oxfordshire, resting at the bottom of a steep bank, they said.
West Midlands Ambulance Service is carrying out an internal investigation.
Two-year-old Molly’s grandfather, Bill Robison, from Radford Semele in Warwickshire, said Molly was now in intensive care at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford with her mother, Holly, at her bedside.
Molly and two paramedics were “bounced around” inside the ambulance during the crash at about 03:30 GMT on Thursday as they were not strapped in, unlike her 30-year-old mother, Mr Robison said.
Heard ‘a clonk’
Molly was “gravely ill” at the time and Mr Robison said on Friday despite what had happened, he did not wish to criticise the ambulance service for what happened.
The mother and daughter suffered bruising, with Molly sustaining a cut to her head after the crash.
Mr Robison said he believed the two medics were also injured, with one suffering a head injury.
“We don’t really know exactly what happened as my daughter is concentrating on her daughter right now but, they were travelling fast, but I’m sure within the limit, on the motorway, just before junction 11, and suddenly heard ‘a clonk’,” he said.
"It left the road, went down the embankment and rolled several times.
“We don’t know why help wasn’t raised, but it seems they were stuck there for a while when, we think, a passing motorist saw a light and came down and prized the doors open.”
An ambulance spokesman said its crew were taken to Warwick Hospital as a precaution.
The driver was unhurt while the ambulance attendant, who was travelling in the back with the patient, had minor abrasions.