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Earlier Call to Fire Service 'May Have Saved' Lowestoft Mum
The coroner said rescue guidance was not followed and estimated Saffron Cole-Nottage needed help within five minutes of submersion.
- Suffolk area coroner Darren Stewart concluded on Friday that Saffron Cole-Nottage, 32, died from accidental drowning, noting she "might have survived" if the East of England Ambulance Service had alerted the fire service sooner.
- On February 2, 2025, Cole-Nottage slipped and became wedged headfirst in sea defence rocks at Lowestoft while walking her dog with her daughter along The Esplanade.
- Professor Richard Lyon told the inquest that Cole-Nottage's alcohol level of 271 mg per 100ml impaired her reflexes; he said "survival was possible up until about the 15-minute mark" of submersion.
- Stewart criticised the 999 call handling as "slavish," noting dispatcher Daniel Joy failed to identify the drowning risk, while paramedic Colleen Gibson's assessment as a body recovery was "premature."
- EEAST chief executive officer Neill Moloney accepted the coroner's findings and promised to strengthen call handling and triage processes following the inquest's Prevention of Future Deaths report.
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