A HAMPSHIRE woman told she was "lucky to be alive" after a dramatic crash has criticised the ambulance service after paramedics failed to arrive.

Izzy Morrison was left without medical attention for an hour after her car flipped twice in a hit-and-run in Owslebury on Sunday morning.

South Central Ambulance Service has apologised after the 22-year-old's boss drove her to A&E herself.

Ms Morrison told how she was approaching a notorious bend in Hurst Lane when a Land Rover came speeding round the corner.

She said: "I thought I was going to hit it so I just closed my eyes and thought 'I'm going to die, I'm going to die'."

Ms Morrison blacked out as the cars collided but survived with only a few bruises.

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"I remember waking up at about five past nine thinking 'where am I?'" she said. "I'd been sprawled across my car. I got out of my car and the Land Rover just drove off."

Paramedics were called after a worker at nearby Marwell Zoo discovered the wreckage, but nobody arrived after nearly an hour. Ms Morrison's boss then took her to hospital.

Doctors at Royal Hampshire County Hospital were "fuming" that an ambulance hadn't attended, Ms Morrison said.

"Can you imagine if I was more seriously hurt?" she added. "It made me think 'what the hell are the NHS doing?' If I was trapped in the car and they took that long to come I would be suing them now. It was just not on.

"I'm just bruised and really, really sore this morning, but the policeman said 'you're lucky to be alive'."

Ms Morrison lives in Beech Grove, Owslebury, with her grandfather, Desmond Glasspool. He hopes to enlist George Hollingbery MP in the family's search for answers.

He said: "[The ambulance service] can't understand why an ambulance or paramedic didn't arrive. That's not good enough for me."

South Central Ambulance Service said the incident was being reviewed.

A spokesman said: "We take our response to our patients very seriously and would like to apologise to the patient for the delay in attending her call."

Meanwhile, Ms Morrison is appealing to find the Land Rover driver who abandoned the scene without checking on her condition.

"He just left me," she said. "I could have died and he just left."

Ms Morrison's Vauxhall Corsa has been written off.