I guess there are 2 ways of looking at this. I live by an ambulance station & quite regularly see ambulances around in queing traffic. This forces the ambulance to go on opposite side of road where they have no view of what is round the corner & vica versa. I assume that they think cars will see them and move, now if you are coming the other way too quickly (25-30mph may be too quickly) and have a vehicle appear infront of you, you may not be able to prevent a colision.

This is not the same as the accident circumstances but brings me to the same point. If you or a loved one was in need of help or in this case needed to get to hospital asap would you want the ambulence to overtake traffic/ go slightly quicker than conditions dictate or would you like it to wait in traffic or slow down. It is quite an emotive subject and I expect that while they remain profesional, the human life/death aspect does drive emergency services (no punn intended) to take more risks.


Now, if I digress for a minute, I also witness a disregard for fellow drivers from emergency services. Quite often I see 'them' (collective emergency services) charge up to traffic without sirens - why dont they use them and give us a few seconds extra warning? But the biggy was while heading back home one night. Lights on red, ambulance infront - puts lights on goes through lights - lights change to green, I head in same direction, ambulence in distance (no lights) - follow to next set of lights - ambulance goes round corner & into ambulance station.

I guess you're always going to get some people with a god complex but to sum up, I do believe ambulance drivers on the whole are just trying to do the best for their patients.

Glad to hear everybody was ok after the accident