Racing the Blues and Twos

Trust me if you or your family pr friends ever involved innan incident you're going to be hoping that every man and his dog pulls put of the way so they can be on scene as fast as possible. And remember that when you hear or see the ambulance behind you.

Awful behaviour.
 
233 said:
The wording of the article implies the ambulance stopped when the trumpet was following them not the other way round

Not apologising for him at all sounds like he was a right nugget. But as I've stated if it was that much of an emergency why to argue with a Moron?
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Perhaps when the decision to stop was made another ambulance already had made it to the patient. Presumably they would have radioed control regarding the trumpet's actions.
 
Resident said:
Perhaps when the decision to stop was made another ambulance already had made it to the patient. Presumably they would have radioed control regarding the trumpet's actions.
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Possibly, or they may have decided that it was no longer safe to continue because of the other motorist.
 
PMKeates said:
As if ambulances don't get followed through traffic all the time? I see it pretty often!
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Depends how it's done and what risks the other driver is taking. The actual situational context can lead to lots of different decisions being appropriate. I'm just saying that they may have felt the other driver was so dangerous they couldn't complete their run safely.
 
acemastr said:
I've overtaken an ambulance with the blues and twos on in the UK on my bike, they were literally going 50 on an empty road with no roads joining it, gave them a bit of time, made it clear I was behind them and went on past.
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I often see ambulances driving barely at the speed limit, it's probably as they've got someone on board and want to be as smooth as possible whilst getting there soon as. If you've ever been in the back of an ambulance you'll notice that it is an extremely smooth ride, I didn't even feel like we were moving.
 
Another typical idiot on the road, at least he wont be for 30 months.

It's absolutely shocking what some people will do when confronted with an emergency vehicle on a blue light run. People waiting to join the road said emergency vehicle is on, see it, pull out as fast as they possibly can in front of it, only to then stop and 'pull over' on the side of the road seconds later. Just STAY PUT YOU MUPPET.
 
iAustinMark said:
I often see ambulances driving barely at the speed limit, it's probably as they've got someone on board and want to be as smooth as possible whilst getting there soon as.
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Same. I've seen quite a few that have only been going a bit faster than me. Don't get me wrong, I sure as heck pulled over for them. But if I needed to get somewhere in a hurry, or had the impunity of blues and twos, I'd have been absolutely ragging it. Although actually IIRC aren't ambulances something stupid like 4tons in weight?


iAustinMark said:
If you've ever been in the back of an ambulance you'll notice that it is an extremely smooth ride, I didn't even feel like we were moving.
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Not the one I went to A&E in!
 
You don't need to go fast on blues to make good progress. Going fast can be counter productive as you don't give people adequate time to see you and move over. Plus it's simply not worth the risk to really push it as the time difference will be negligible and it's better to get there safely rather than not at all.
 
JaWalks said:
You don't need to go fast on blues to make good progress. Going fast can be counter productive as you don't give people adequate time to see you and move over. Plus it's simply not worth the risk to really push it as the time difference will be negligible and it's better to get there safely rather than not at all.
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Not seeing the relevance to the thread. A thread about a Grade A Idiot quite obviously impeding progress by being stupid. Speed or lack thereof has nothing to do with it.

It's almost as if you are suggesting the Ambulance in question should have held back and followed behind the Volvo driver.
 
Sin_Chase said:
Not seeing the relevance to the thread. A thread about a Grade A Idiot quite obviously impeding progress by being stupid. Speed or lack thereof has nothing to do with it.

It's almost as if you are suggesting the Ambulance in question should have held back and followed behind the Volvo driver.
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I think that was in response to Westyfield saying "But if I needed to get somewhere in a hurry, or had the impunity of blues and twos, I'd have been absolutely ragging it."

Also, LOL at his 'defence', why even bother making up a load of nonsense? Surely just admitting it was a moment of utter stupidity would be more sensible?
 
Impunity of Blues and Twos? I wish!

Everything is your fault, even more so on a blue light run.

Got too close to stationary traffic at red lights and someone goes over white line causing an RTC? Proximity Emergency Services Collision.

Get too close to someone in expensive metal. 'Force' them to mount a high kerb and damage alloys. "They forced me onto the pavement they were so close!!!"

Someone sees/hears the lights/sirens late, panics and swerves into another lane and crashes. Yup, your 'fault'. Proximity collision.


It's very hard to drive on blues and twos properly. It's VERY hard to turn everything off at a congested set of traffic lights where nobody has anywhere to go when you are responding to a violent domestic in progress. You can imagine why it is very hard to suppress feelings of absolute disbelief at people who do very very stupid things when faced with an emergency services vehicle.
 
I saw a small Ford follow an ambulance through 3 lanes of stationery traffic once.
He managed to cut in front of like 30 mins of traffic lol.
He was skilled at it too. Was right on his bumper the entire time.
 
This guy needs to be put in a straigh jacket and kept out of the public's way indefinatly. No excuse at all, there is simply no way to rationalise his behaviour.
 
wow guy sounds like a douché! and that defence....

He said Cooper had been confused as to where the ambulance was going and thought the crew might be about to pull in or turn around because they had taken a wrong turn.
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mind reader too is he? had a vision of where the ambulance needed to go.... shouldn't have been making any such assumptions, just GTFOut of the way by pulling over!

I've followed ambulances before on the motorway/dual carriageway but they're usually doing around 70 (on motorway). pull over early for them, let them pass.... then follow not too closely (obviously gotta keep distance... not gunna be trying to slipstream the guy!!!!) , continue on with your journey and enjoy a cleared lane for you :D wouldn't dream of trying the same in town though :eek:....that's just asking for trouble! (not to mention probably laws against it)
 
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Ambulances take forever to get up to speed. Bear this in mind when they go past you but don't pull away into the distance. Given when we have to scrub off speed to manoeuvre past other traffic it can take time to make that speed back up. For those that overtake an ambulance on an emergency run as the ambulance is going slower than them, at the next junction or set of lights you are then another obstacle that the ambulance will have to get past. Please don't do it.
 
I drive both Ambulance Cars and Vans. The amount of times I see people trying to keep up with me and moving round traffic is stupid. On the motorway I was doing a fair bit more than 70 as we had a really poorly patient on board we had to take to Birmingham and one car in particular thought it would be a good idea to keep up with me...

In the cars as well it happens! the other one as a Blue Light driver that peeves me off is when one person pulls over and the guy behind doesn't bother to check his mirror and pulls around and until I make some extra noise they don't actually realise i'm there!
 
I know there are several members of the emergency services here who will agree how dangerous it is following an emergency vehicle on a blue light run, even in a fully marked vehicle with its own emergency equipment on. People expect one vehicle, and don't look when they pull back out.
 
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