News Day
A couple stories caught my attention on the news today, firstly a bull has destroyed an antiques shop in Lancashire - not quite a china shop but still unfortunate.
Then there’s a story about an ambulance driver in West Yorkshire who has been charged with speeding for doing 104 mph. He was driving with blue flashing lights and was performing an emergency transport of a liver at the time.
East Anglia Ambulance service have been sent 1,050 tickets in a year by police for their drivers clocked (a lot by speed cameras outside the local hospital).
Interesting stuff for those that don’t realise that the laws concerning police, ambulances and other emergency vehicles breaking the speed limit for emergencies is fairly ambiguous, and I feel sorry for the drivers themselves (particularly in life-threatening emergencies) who are put in this sort of situation.
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May 29th, 2003 at 9:43 pm
If the police in Lincolnshire feel that an ambulance on a life saving mission should not be allowed to do 104 mph, then neither should police vehicles. And perhaps if the ambulance service are ever expected to attend to injured police officers, they should remember this and be careful not to hurry to their aid. And the courts should also prosecute the police drivers if they bring evedince to court showing they were keeping pace with vehicles travelling at such speeds. It’s a pity that ‘Government’s’ blinkered approach regards an arbitrary number to be the be all and end all of road safety. How many people were killed in the 100 mph coaches that used to ply the Motorway betwen Birmingham and London?