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As Rachel Bartram was sent a Facebook post about an air ambulance being called to an incident close to her home, she knew something serious had happened. But at that time, she didn’t know just how close to home the incident would prove to be.
After making her way to the scene, she decided to call her mother, Kathleen Kirby. There was no answer. When she was met with the same response after ringing her stepdad Cliff Bullen, she started to worry.
“That’s when I knew something was wrong,” she said. When Cliff called her back, her world fell apart.
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“All he told me was there had been an accident,” she said. Rachel soon learned her mother was the reason an air ambulance had been scrambled.
“I was screaming, in shock and being sick,” she said. “I was in a state of shock and confusion, frantically trying to find out what had happened.”
She was whisked away to Salford Royal Hospital, battling traffic and following her mother who was being treated in an ambulance. Her worst fears were confirmed before she was even officially told the news.
“There were no doctors waiting for her in the hospital. That’s when I knew my mum had passed away in the ambulance on route.”
Her mother was the matriarch of the family, a 66-year-old who she described as being ‘a mum, a nan and a best friend rolled into one’. Kathleen had recently retired and was looking forward to a long and happy life with Cliff, her partner of 22 years.
“She was 66 but lived life like a 35-year-old,” Rachel said. “She had so much to look forward to.
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