Rushing someone to hospital

You should have dialled 999. It's more likely that an ambulance, paramedic on a bike etc would have got to you faster than you could have got to the hospital and without the significant risk of a non-trained driver, without light siren etc driving fast and through lights.

Dialling 999, you would also have received some advice over the phone about how to look after her for the few minutes before help arrived. That would be better than her being thrown around in the back of your car.
 
Scythe said:
I think this demonstrates this discussion perfectly :P
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That is some lame video lol. Would possibly be worse if i knew what they were saying lol.

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I seems you all over reacted. Should have called 999. They have quick response paramedics on bikes and in cars. Im pretty sure one of those would have gotten to the girl before you could have gotten to the hospital and id imagine she would not of had to leave the building either :p
 
I have read somewhere before that if you are using the car as an ambulance then you can treat red lights etc as give ways much the same way as an ambulance driver would. But even police and ambulance drivers can be prosecuted for inappropiate speed/ driving

An ambulance is a vehicle for transporting sick or injured people,to, from or between places of treatment for an illness or injury. The term ambulance is used to describe a vehicle used to bring medical care to patients outside of the hospital and when appropriate, to transport the patient to hospital for follow-up care and further testing.
 
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Exemption of fire brigade, ambulance and police vehicles from speed limits.
No statutory provision imposing a speed limit on motor vehicles shall apply to any vehicle on an occasion when it is being used for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes, if the observance of that provision would be likely to hinder the use of the vehicle for the purpose for which it is being used on that occasion.
 
Surely you have a GP in the area? I don't think they would have minded if you dropped in sans appointment. Caning it to hospital on behalf of someone having a suspected panic attack is ludicrous.

It's one of those "what if" scenarios though and easy to comment from the comfy seat I have at my computer desk.
 
I once saw on one of those cop shows where a woman was pulled for speeding, she was in a right state and in her dressing gown, she told them she was heading for the hospital because her daughter had just been taken there.

She was swiftly given a lift there by the police with there blues and two's going.

I don't know if this is the norm or not, but because of it I know I would break all kinds of speed limits and such if someone was in danger and needed treatment.
 
Always ring 999.

You can then at least back up your "I need to get to hospital quick" story.
 
therealnerd2 said:
I'm going to sound like the standard OCUK keyboard warrier but I hope you will reconsider this attitude. Slightly fast is one thing, but pulling twice the speed limit over long time periods is really really dangerous. Please think about all the other people around you, who won't be expecting you to approach that fast, who also have fathers. Anything could happen, you could have a blowout and take out the whole carridgeway.
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I don't think you sound like a keyboard warrior and I do understand what you're saying, but I still wouldn't reconsider it. If a close member of my family was in a life threatening condition, I'd go through hell and high water to get to them.
 
As far as I am aware you are "allowed" (allowing may range from being completely absolved to having a reduced punishment) to reasonably contravene driving laws during an emergency. There's even provision to allow you to drive while over the alcohol limit if you are responding to a medical emergency. It's to cover those situations where you may be in the middle of nowhere, say on a camping trip having a few drinks, out of communication range and a friend suddenly starts having a heart-attack. The law sees it as more acceptable for you to drive in that kind of scenario.

I also don't believe it's true that an ambulance can get you to a hospital quicker than driving straight from where you are unless there is huge amounts of traffic. The advantage of the ambulance is that it's a mini-hospital on wheels.
 
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The police (as in the ones actually out on the road) are normally very good and helpful in situations like this, I doubt you'd have been given anything other than a lead in (if they thought it was as serious as you did) and a reminder to behave the rest of the time. If it was a camera you'd be screwed though.

The police themselves are very good at managing their descretionary powers, it's why we never used to have problems with speed enforcement and public perception until the camera was introduced.
 
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