Inquiry into patient's suicide
Mr Wells was being treated after trying to kill himself earler this month. An inquiry has begun after a psychiatric patient apparently killed himself as he was being transported between hospitals in South Yorkshire. Mr Wells, Treated After, Trying To Kill Himself, Psychiatric Patient, Killed Himself, Between Hospitals
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Mr Wells was being treated after trying to kill himself earler this month. An inquiry has begun after a psychiatric patient apparently killed himself as he was being transported between hospitals in South Yorkshire. Mr Wells, Treated After, Trying To Kill Himself, Psychiatric Patient, Killed Himself, Between Hospitals
Inquiry into patient's suicide
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X Facebook Truthsocial VKMr Wells, Mr WellsMichael Wells, 60, was being escorted by a female carer in a taxi when he escaped and seemed to throw himself under a lorry in Barnsley on 11 July.
His wife Ann, of Gerald Place, Kendray, Barnsley, said his death was avoidable and she is considering legal action.
Barnsley Primary Care Trust (PCT) said an investigation was under way.
Mr Wells was a voluntary psychiatric patient being transported from Barnsley Hospital's Oakwell Centre to the town's Kendray Hospital in a taxi, accompanied by a nurse, when he jumped out and ran off on 11 July.
He was first hit by a car before running on to Huddersfield Road where he appeared to throw himself under a lorry.
"Suicide watch"
Mr Wells had to have both legs amputated and died in hospital last Wednesday - 12 days after the incident.
His widow told the BBC: "They knew he was suicidal. He had been on suicide watch down there night and day.
"I don't understand why they transferred him in a taxi to the hospital. It should have been an ambulance."
She believes if he had been taken by ambulance, with a two-man crew, her husband would never have been able to escape.
"I am left with no husband, I have to bring up the grandbairns [grandchildren] without their grandfather now and I can't cope," she said.
A Barnsley PCT statement said: "It is the policy of Barnsley PCT and the Department of Health not to comment in the media about individual patients and to do so would be to compromise patient confidentiality.
"Investigations into the incident are currently under way. Until it has been thoroughly investigated the PCT cannot comment further."
Meanwhile, an inquest into Mr Wells's death has been opened and adjourned.