Ambulance Patrol Car Smash Up in Streatham

[lisab1768]

@beamprimary - before spouting off why don't you read what really happened. The paramedic was on a call to someone under a train........I think they call that an EMERGENCY or maybe LIFETHREATENING... so I think the driver had the right to have the siren and lights on.....the same lights and siren the gas van driver DIDN'T HEAR!!!!!! Perhaps the general public should be made aware of what lights and sirens mean. incidently the call out was a hoax......back to the general public!

[beamprimary]

THEY GO TO FAST AND CAN END UP KILLING SOMEONE INNOCENT, THERE OBSESSED BY LIGHTS AND SIRENS AND NEED TO BE MONITORED

[AdzB92]

@robertgift yes it did of course have the lights and sirens but they would have come and removed the light bar and equipment off the vehicle to use on another before this car was taken to the junkie as they are very very expensive!

[firstplumbline]

The lights would have been turned off when the engine conked out!, just as the siren would have been turned off also.

[topsecret362]

Those vauxhall zafira's are a tough cars if say so myself.

[damycityrocker]

Rapid Response Veichle (or, as we call them in Italy, "medic cars") are also used in order to take an equipe of doctors to a certain place where a state-of-the-art intervention is needed. I often see these cars following ambulances on their way to the emergency spot, and besides I have seen NHS Paramedics in London on bikes too.

[volunteer4community]

Rapid Response Vehicles (RRV's) can also be sent to a category C call if an ambulance may not be needed so instead of 2 paramedics there is 1 responding and it aves an ambulance for category A's and B's.

I have great admiration for the LAS and RRV's as they have saved my nan's life a few times and helped my grandad during his strokes or if he has fallen and cannot get up.

[vdsis1]

poor poor person

lost his life to save one

[Gr33nMamba]

T-Cut will get it out.

[stuthejock]

"The London Ambulance Service paramedic had been on his way to West Norwood Station amid reports of a woman under a train." I think in the circumstances, the patient he was on route to attend was definately a "life threatening" case, so he WOULD be going quick. These response drivers are highly trained, but sometimes other road users do not react to sirens (that are DAMN LOUD, and feature white noise to help directional hearing loacte them) correctly.

[busvids08]

they get a crew paramedic / EMT there quick until a full ambulance is available.

[classwar09]

wow, what shitty little ambulances brits have. emergency vehicles should be a little bigger and tougher than compact cars.

[KiCkBoXeR19841]

they dont transport patients but urgencie material and they use those cars because they are faster and so they can be faster on the place of an accident!

[RamichCandidate]

you idiot you really think you could transport a patient in that

wow ur dumb. why not search british ambulance

[SJAMAD15]

Is is a Rapid Responce Vechile and it is used in Cat A Or B, it is the first one on scene which will give the injured Life saving Medical Care until the Ambulance Can get to the scene. so it Aint "Shitty little ambulance" it is the one thats gona be able to save YOUR life if u ever get injured

Thanks

[RandyDarkshade]

It makes sense to research before comenting. It is a rapid response vehicle, not an ambulance. It is used in instances where for example an ambulance is gonna take longer to arrive at an emergency shout, They can be manouvered through heavy traffic much faster than a big old ambulance thus getting to a patient in need of urgent medical care (such as heart attack).

[traineespark]

eh they carry advanced paramedics. or whatever the english equivilent is.. in ireland they have bikes too... most of europe have these.... effective! because paramedics and emts, have limits to their scene treatment powers.... from a fireman

[pim033]

looks heavy....did the driver survived?

[kieranreeves]

did the person die?

[traineespark]

read the description

[robertgift]

[ "A Patrol car on call hit a gas van in Streatham, no serious injuries were reported." ]

What is a "gas van"?

A Patrol car on (a) call? Meaning: responding lights and siren to a call?

Description is poor.

[enchantified]

@robetgift ; or you just have no common sense.

Patrol car on a call - yes, responding to an emergency/call out.

Gas van - a van, which I'm assuming either carries gas, or someone who works for a gas company drives.

[robertgift]

"On call" (as written) means available.

On [a] call means performing.

Learn a little English.

Getting treatment quickly started at the scene can be far more effective than getting a patient into a hospital emergency room.

[robertgift]

Did that vehicle have lights and siren?

No sign of such in the video.

[OfficerNelson]

@robertgift Come on Rob, weren't you an advocate of limiting siren use back in the day? Besides, you should know LAS RRV's often times have slicktop lights to go with the whole "aerodynamic speed" thing.

[robertgift]

@OfficerNelson I still drive as quietly as possible.

Oh, Thanks - did not know about slicktop lights.

Wish I could replace our Streethawk lightbar with something more aerodynamic.

After driving emergent 102 miles, athe hospital I would remove the lightbar and drive home with it across the Jeep Cherokee back seats.

(I try to save noise and air pollution.)

[PoliceAmbulanceFire]

@robertgift all London ambulance service vaxhall zafiras rapid response cars are fitted with lights and siren this vehicles lightbar may have became detached or the fire brigade may have removed it when the driver was extracted. I hope this helps.

[libertycpi]

@PoliceAmbulanceFire The lights and sirens were probably removed by London Fire Brigade.. especially as they are alternating electrical lights, its risky to leave them on.

[PoliceAmbulanceFire]

@libertycpi yeah i see what you mean with that, a spark from the cutting equiptment and a faulty lightbar is a risk not worth taking.

[blipdriver]

@libertycpi The lights were probably removed by the car rolling! It was on its roof.

[electricdixie34]

how much for the car. is it a cat c or d?

[graham1988]

Clearly it's going to be Cat B or mostly A?

[Skoda130]

That ambulance is totalled.. XD

[vicky271fxz]

is this a joke?

the irony that a gas van crashes into a ambulance

[RandyDarkshade]

Obviously a car lit up like a christmas tree coverd in big yellow and green reflective squires and makeing more noise then birds first theing in the morning wasn't big enough or clear enough for the gas van driver to see it >.>

[AgonyOfRomance]

Yeah, its amazing how people can't see one :\

[robertgift]

The emergency vehicle driver must give others the opportunity to detect his siren and lights.

People are good and try to help.

Sometimes they are surprised and have liitle chance to best react.

With heater and radio, it can be difficult to hear a siren.

[tom994uk]

if you see one of those with it's lightbar still on, you'll realise that it is quite big and it's siren is one of the loudest ones in London

[insolence2207]

How exactly did the gas van come to hitting the ambulance?

[tuffcutshears]

heres the link to the news story if anyone wants a read?

news. bbc. co. uk /1 /hi /england / london /6413677 . stm

with out the spaces

[FireAlarmPuller]

holy crap that is one big crash i hope he will make a full recovery :)

[PoliceMadBen]

I hope the driver is ok that looked like a nasty crash

[VectraD2X]

I believe the driver was ok but a pedestrian was injured

[PoliceMadBen]

I was expecting the driver to be hurt but hope the pedestrion recovers

[UKParamedic]

I think I know the driver of that crash, he was fine, the pedestrian guy broke his femur and then there were some complications during surgery, but he is fine now. I'm not sure if this was the crash I knew about but the scenery is definatly similar (not my patch, but the next county so I have been there before)

[viparboy]

@PoliceMadBen YESURRRRRRRRRRRRRR