An ambulance service has paid tribute to a 'well loved and respected' technician who died after a rock smashed through his vehicle's windscreen.
Jeremy Daw, 66, known to friends as Jack, had been sitting in the front passenger seat of the ambulance when the rock smashed into the windscreen from a passing lorry heading towards a nearby quarry.
Despite the efforts of his emergency services colleagues, the grandfather, who had only returned to the West Midlands Ambulance Service in January this year to join the battle against the pandemic, died at the scene.
The driver of the ambulance, who had worked with Mr Daw previously, was taken to hospital for treatment but has since been discharged after receiving treatment.