ambulance on a bike?

[Burns]

ok, dropped the other half at uni today, and drove past two guys on bicycles straining to get up the hill, took another look and saw this:

 

 

what the hell? paramedics on bicycles? surely that cant be a good idea, they even had 'ambulance' across their backs

[escysean]

Me too, saw them other day, almost ran them over when I was making left turn from the lights at city centre and got the shock, they are paramedics......wtf?

 

NHS cutting down the costs?

[razersedge]

there is shed loads of them in central london they can get about faster because of the traffic in rush hour

[Stu_B]

Far quicker response time in cities.... well maybe not those old shopper style ones!! I read an article about them once in a mountain bike mag & the guy was on a sorted MTB & could beat any ambulance, he would get there & do what he could untill the proper ambulance got there. Pretty good idea I reckon.

[Copey]

yeah, they are a good idea in cities i think, they can dodge through traffic and administer first aid till the ambulance get ther, as Stu! said, could be the difference between life and death in fairness to them

[Burns]

i can understand london/birmingham/manchester, but leeds

[Muttley MK2]

O.K wtf is wrong with leeds?

[Burns]

O.K wtf is wrong with leeds?

 

it's not exactly a highly built city, i can drive round it in no time when i deliver of an evening. most of it's bus lanes, a paramedic in a car would have no problem getting round it

[Twinkle]

the mountain bike paramedics at heathrow have already succesfully resucitated a 34 yr old mum of two. and some of you say they arent a good idea?

 

would you rather she had died?

[Burns]

i understand in places like highly built up cities and flat places like airports that are difficult to navigate, but in hilly leeds surely they'd be better with motorbikes or similar?

[razersedge]

perhaps you should sign up for the bike devision twink

[Twinkle]

i understand in places like highly built up cities and flat places like airports that are difficult to navigate, but in hilly leeds surely they'd be better with motorbikes or similar?

 

from the info i read about it at work the leeds one is only within the city centre itself and i beleive is only a trial that is working very well with good response times

 

 

 

perhaps you should sign up for the bike devision twink

 

i have already worked on a bike division for special events such as the open golf when it was in kent and we even had golf caddies with stretchers and blue lights

[Burns]

i understand in places like highly built up cities and flat places like airports that are difficult to navigate, but in hilly leeds surely they'd be better with motorbikes or similar?

 

from the info i read about it at work the leeds one is only within the city centre itself and i beleive is only a trial that is working very well with good response times

 

aah, fair enough, they must have been on their way home or something

 

we even had golf caddies with stretchers and blue lights

 

haha, awesome

[razersedge]

 

i have already worked on a bike division for special events such as the open golf when it was in kent and we even had golf caddies with stretchers and blue lights

 

bet you slept well that night

[Jeb]

Have a few of them come into work and buy some bit's and tool's and stuff , they use them at heathrow airport too get around on, the bikes way a tonne

[louie bagel]

i deffo think they are a good idea esspecially if they save lives however i cant help but wonder do the riders go along shouting NEEE NAHH NEE NAHH

[sab6024]

i deffo think they are a good idea esspecially if they save lives however i cant help but wonder do the riders go along shouting NEEE NAHH NEE NAHH

 

 

I think they are a brilliant idea. Down here in Cornwall we seem to have local rapid response cars (not the normal ambulance cars ) that go out to a call before the ambulance gets there. I'd never seen them before only the Ambulance cars

 

I had a lady fall the other day and bash her head. I had to climb through a window to get to her, while I was on the phone to 999 a guy in a red Pug 207 had already arrived outside. Now that's quick I thought

 

So if it cuts response times I can only see it as a brilliant idea

[james p]

i deffo think they are a good idea esspecially if they save lives however i cant help but wonder do the riders go along shouting NEEE NAHH NEE NAHH

 

they have proper sirens and lights the bikes are sooo heavy we have to build new wheels as they get the bike