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Seems like clickbait, stirred up by the fire department.
This was written into what, the EMS call report ("records reviewed by the reporter")?
Generally EMS reports are not a place to opine as to medicolegal causation, so this is an odd detail to include. I think EMS would report an egregious failure to yield to police. They might note in the call sheet that a vehicle delayed the trip by X seconds, but the inclusion of specific blame is just so out of place.
Further, EMS is a profession of first aid, not pathology, epidemiology, and outcomes. Especially not without reviewing medical records of the subsequent treatment and outcome at the hospital, probably even medical records from prior the event, too, they are not competent to give such an opinion.
The statement itself proves my point. This delay, "no matter how miniminal, contributed to a poor patient outcome." Sounds like something an EMS driver would say. I'm reading hints of grandiosity and road rage, road indignation, really. Really, no matter how minimal? That's not logical. My $0.02.
As someone who works in emergency medicine, this article sounds very overdramatic. If the patient was so unstable they died receiving care in the back of an ambulance, odds are they weren't going to live in the hospital either