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image captionPeggy Copeman was being transported from Somerset to Norfolk when she died
A woman who died on a motorway hard shoulder was neglected by a private ambulance company, a coroner said.
Peggy Copeman, 81, died while being transferred from Somerset to Norfolk in a Ford Transit in December 2019.
The van driver told the inquest he thought at the time the journey should not have gone ahead .
The coroner said Premier Rescue Ambulance Service failed to provide prompt medical attention which contributed to Mrs Copeman s death.
Mrs Copeman, of New Buckenham, was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in the late 1960s, and was moved into a care home in 2014 after showing signs of dementia.
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