nickyboy01
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
Location: Oxford-ish
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Most of the accidents are beat bobbies in towns etc who dont do the high speed training that traffic cops do for the motorways.
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Meat-Pie-SRI
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Registered: 10th Apr 02
Location: Berkhamsted, Drives Mk4 R32
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Originally posted by Cybermonkey24
well said meat pie
I aim to please 
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Kerry
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Registered: 5th Oct 01
Location: Norwich
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Originally posted by SetH
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Originally posted by LukeGSi
Driving with blue lights and sirens is far more dangerous than normal road conditions hence more accidents. The main problem is the general public don't know how to deal with emergency vehicles.
Grafficexpress - I don't know where he got that idea...all police officers have to do an advanced driving course enabling them to drive under emergency conditions although not all officers are traffic trained and are able to pursue.
Also the general public dont see why they should have to kerb their alloys onto the pavement or take their splitter off to let an ambulance past 
you dont  if you kerb your alloys getting out of the way of an ambulance than more fool you
and how many people have you seen with a tool kit at the side of the road removing splitters to let them through also 
[Edited on 27-06-2005 by Kerry]
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RKS
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Registered: 2nd Mar 04
Location: Gloucestershire UK
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Originally posted by Kerry
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Originally posted by SetH
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Originally posted by LukeGSi
Driving with blue lights and sirens is far more dangerous than normal road conditions hence more accidents. The main problem is the general public don't know how to deal with emergency vehicles.
Grafficexpress - I don't know where he got that idea...all police officers have to do an advanced driving course enabling them to drive under emergency conditions although not all officers are traffic trained and are able to pursue.
Also the general public dont see why they should have to kerb their alloys onto the pavement or take their splitter off to let an ambulance past
you dont if you kerb your alloys getting out of the way of an ambulance than more fool you
and how many people have you seen with a tool kit at the side of the road removing splitters to let them through also
[Edited on 27-06-2005 by Kerry]
The general public dont have alloys and splitters,
you dont have to go up onto the kerb to let an emergency vehicle pass you,
on most roads if cars get into BOTH sides there will be enough room for an emergency vehicle to pass, basically you just make room for them, im not saying you shud put ur car on the kerb for them cuz u shudnt just make a gangway down the middle of the road....
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LukeGSi
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Registered: 9th Dec 03
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Originally posted by graficxpress
Luke, I think that is what he might have been saying. Only the ones with the more advanced training (traffic trained) are allowed to now. I know that in the Fire service we have changed our procedures on how we drive to incidents with effect from the 1st of July, we will no longer drive to some 'special service incidents' on blues and twos, but proceed 'at normal road speed' instead, with no lights. this is for incidents life AFAs (Automatic fire alarms) people stuck in lifts etc.
Aye we're now doing something similar in East Anglia with calls that are of low priority - ie. nose bleeds, non specific back pain, headaches and various other crap we get the ambulance will attend under normal road conditions without lights and sirens. Most of the public seem to be fairly understanding at the moment...
As various other people have said drivers of emergency vehicles aren't superheros of the best drivers in the world but they do have a lot of training and experience which plays a large part in driving safely under emergency conditions!
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