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[Obo]

Nice to see how the bikes clear the way for the ambulance on the busy highways.

 

[Larry Fine]

That was impressive! I'd like to do escort service like that.

Just curious: does anyone know what kind of bikes they use?

 

[Sadlsor]

It's frightening, really, how clueless people can be on the roads.
"She just looked at me, uncomprehendingly
Like cows at a passing train."
If Dirt Were Dollars, by Don Henley

 

[ST1100Y]

... and always the one idiot trying to pull out (01:04) ... un_F_believable ...

Looks like Yam FJR1300

Been told that Dutch police escorts all ambulance by default... probably especially stubborn car drivers there...

Best with 3 bikes...
The Met Police Special Escort Group are quite smooth...

 

[ST Gui]

Holy crap. They don't need an escort they need a slick.

 

[ST1100Y]

It's frightening, really, how clueless people can be on the roads.
"She just looked at me, uncomprehendingly
Like cows at a passing train."
If Dirt Were Dollars, by Don Henley

Yep, exactamundo...

 

[SMSW]

I'm surprised that drivers do not pull over to the right with an approaching ambulance. While I've not spent any time in an emergency vehicle, my experience on the highways has been everyone pulls to the right to let the flashing lights and siren pass. Of course you will have the occasional idiot asleep at the wheel, but then said jerk is likely to cause an accident anywhere.

 

[mjc506]

The local style here seems to be to ignore any emergency service vehicles as long as possible, then stop on a blind corner so they can't safely pass...

 

[ST1100Y]

The local style here seems to be to ignore any emergency service vehicles as long as possible, then stop on a blind corner so they can't safely pass...

Which seems astonishing, considering the cliche of Brits being so disciplined...

But we've the same over here, the blue billboard flickering and the federal two-tone surround sound renders them EMT's invisible...
Far worse: upon getting "disturbed" they react upset at ambulances & police cruisers trying to divide the floods... (or at me, hazards on, blocking two lanes or a junction to ease their way by... )

Just don't get in the way of fire trucks, their drivers have no mercy smacking obstructing cars aside...

 

[ST1100Y]

While I've not spent any time in an emergency vehicle, my experience on the highways has been everyone pulls to the right to let the flashing lights and siren pass. Of course you will have the occasional idiot asleep at the wheel, but then said jerk is likely to cause an accident anywhere.

New code in Europe demands creating an "emergency corridor" on motorways when traffic-flow starts to seize...





You might think the graph is self explanatory... think again...

There many stubborn, inattentive lane hungers, some think "great, I can now pass all them idiots ahead of me" and dart into the gap, others suddenly decide to change lane, in an already seized backlash and of course right in front of the EMT vehicle rushing in under full signals... and to top it they're then too stubborn to back up...

 

[ST Gui]

I've seen people just freeze up and have no idea what to do so they just keep going straight staring in the rearview like a deer in the headlights. Others seem to figure that in the time it would take them to move to the right you could have gone around on their right and they wouldn't have to be bothered.

It might have been 60 Minutes that had a segment on ambos responding and people either ignoring them or others following in its wake as though it were their own personal escort. The videos made me wish there were someone topside with a 60 or 249 to get their attention.