Drivers who helped ambulance service crowned RHA Heroes

摘要

The 2021 RHA Heroes award has gone to Weston-super-Mare coach operators Bakers Dolphin, whose drivers volunteered to help the local ambulance service when lockdown struck in 2020. The driving team was named national winners of the RHA Heroes Award after spending 14 months with Bristol Ambulance's Emergency Medical Services (EMS). The furloughed drivers spent more than a year with EMS in St Philip's, Bristol, after lockdown restrictions prevented the company from running holidays and day trips. RHA chief executive Richard Burnett, presenting the award, said: "The coach sector has been on its knees and yet their selflessness to do what they have done within a sector that had very little certainty or support is fantastic.