In the public interest. Really?
Discussion
Once again some jobsworth has decided that their opinion is more important, ie the Procurator Fiscal in Edinburgh (CPS to you south of the border)has decided to prosecute an organ transplant ambulance driver for speeding.
I despair at the lack of common sense. I only hope that one day his heart transplant is delayed because the ambulance driver refused to break the speed limit.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-ea...
I despair at the lack of common sense. I only hope that one day his heart transplant is delayed because the ambulance driver refused to break the speed limit.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-ea...
I think that some of you need to read the article more closely.
Quote:"Mr Thomson was asked by the transplant surgeon to use the marked ambulance's blue lights and sirens to get the liver to Leeds as quickly as possible"
He was not speeding on a whim or for the jollies. I would also argue that 84 mph is not excessive, considering the speeds that your average repmobile can be seen doing on most motorways.
It was also early in his journey. Make up time first, to allow for any unknown hold ups further down the road.
While I have no way of knowing, I would assume that he has had some kind of emergency driving training, probably as an ex-ambulance driver.
Most of us have seen the famous video of the Traffic Cops delivering a liver from Cambridge to a private hospital in the centre of London. Speeds in excess of 120 mph were used, on a motorway far busier than the section of the A1 that goes past Gladsmuir. It took them something like 27 minutes if I recall.
I appreciate that blues and twos are not a licence to speed, but why fit them at all? Private ambulance? Might as well have paid a mini cab in that case.
As for the gormless idiot (that's you, Surveyor) who thinks that this will teach us "mad jocks" a lesson, grow up. The driver was English, and he was delivering for an English patient.
Quote:"Mr Thomson was asked by the transplant surgeon to use the marked ambulance's blue lights and sirens to get the liver to Leeds as quickly as possible"
He was not speeding on a whim or for the jollies. I would also argue that 84 mph is not excessive, considering the speeds that your average repmobile can be seen doing on most motorways.
It was also early in his journey. Make up time first, to allow for any unknown hold ups further down the road.
While I have no way of knowing, I would assume that he has had some kind of emergency driving training, probably as an ex-ambulance driver.
Most of us have seen the famous video of the Traffic Cops delivering a liver from Cambridge to a private hospital in the centre of London. Speeds in excess of 120 mph were used, on a motorway far busier than the section of the A1 that goes past Gladsmuir. It took them something like 27 minutes if I recall.
I appreciate that blues and twos are not a licence to speed, but why fit them at all? Private ambulance? Might as well have paid a mini cab in that case.
As for the gormless idiot (that's you, Surveyor) who thinks that this will teach us "mad jocks" a lesson, grow up. The driver was English, and he was delivering for an English patient.
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