Move Over, darling

Here's a lesson on what to do if you meet an ambulance.
GET OUT OF THE WAY! oh and you think i'm talking about when it's running with bright lights and an array of loud noises blaring from it's vox-box?
Put it this way, an emergency ambulance, whether it is running with all the paraphenalia
going or not is always going somewhere. Is trying to be in the right place. It doesn't have to have a patient on board. It doesn't even have to be a patient who is seriously ill but it is always going somewhere. An ambulance, when out and about on the mean streets of the UK, always has a place to go.
What about the Police? no. Cos they cruise around showing their faces trying to keep those mean streets crime-free. Fire bobbies? not quite but closer to the emergency ambulance service.
So, an ambulance conveys an ill pateint to hospital. This person is not gonna die but does require treatement somewhere down the line. The ambulance is not in a hurry. It does not play tunes or turn on the disco lights. However, the sooner it is released from that duty with that patient it may be required instantaneously to something that is life threatening. And, because no other ambulance is available that detail could've come in 5 - 15 minutes earlier; but this ambulance that is sitting behind you doing 40mph on an out-of-town A road can not pass you due to the nature of the bends, hillcrests etc etc. It can legally do 50mph (60 on dual carriageways and motorways) but you don't care. No blue lights. No sirens. No bother. However, you are holding up this ambulance from clearing sooner. The ambulance, without you on the road, may clear only 3 minutes sooner but that can be the difference between life and death. A human being may be starved of oxygen for up to 4 minutes without any noteable detrimental effect. That person having a heart attack may not have stopped breathing for a while but the instant that attack began a friend or relative has put in that 999 call. So, clock ticking. Patient still breathing and ambulance is on it's way. Crew do the do. Happiness all round.
Same scenario. Crew are returning to their general area of cover when the call comes in. They are 10 miles away. But if man-in-a-cap had not held up the flow of traffic 40 minutes earlier that ambulance could've been 5 miles away... maybe less.
An ambulance is always going somewhere.
If one is obviously wishing to travel a little bit faster than you wish then pull over. Get off the way. No one is asking you to speed up just move over, let 'em go and then carry on.
Check your Highway Code. If two or vehicles, regardless of status, wish to travel quicker than you then you should pull over anyway! that is, of course, assuming you're doing less that the top speed limit and driving conditions are conducive for the maximum speed limit.


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