A 'horrible ending': N.S. man who laid hours in his driveway waiting for ambulance dies in hospital weeks later

An 86-year-old man who laid in his driveway for hours while waiting for an ambulance earlier this summer, has died after never leaving hospital.

Ross O'Brien had fallen in his Dartmouth driveway in August.

Fearing he may have broken his hip, his wife called for an ambulance, but after several hours, that ambulance still hadn't arrived.

Janet O'Brien then learned the ambulance was coming from Parrsboro, N.S., more than 170 kilometres away. 

After a relative who is a nurse determined it was safe to move him, O'Brien then called police, who took her husband to the nearby hospital.