999 Blue Light Run | Heavy Traffic |

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@iTzCorey Жыл бұрын

999 blue light run through heavy traffic in a Man TGE with the St John ambulance service, any questions ask below 👇back up now!

@adinigel Жыл бұрын

Interesting to see how many drivers enter the bus lane to let the ambulance through! Don't do it, let the ambulance do that...they have the exemption to do so when on a shout!

@iTzCorey Жыл бұрын

Yeah, can be quite frustrating at times because its quite clear the ambulance is trying to enter the bus lane at multiple points and you can hear the frustration but the cars in front go into it instead, people just panic and want to get out the way which causes drivers to make a bad call sadly.

@Paws4thot Жыл бұрын

@@iTzCorey I see your point but not all bus lanes are active 24/7.

@markwright3161 Жыл бұрын

@@iTzCorey For the vast majority shown in these clips the emergency vehicle which we're on board with had another obstruction ahead if it had used the bus lanes where other drivers entered them. From them ending in gridlocked traffic ahead to parked vehicles, buses, cyclists and minor junctions where vehicles were emerging. With these obstructions they would have been best going offside, as they did, and often them moving offside was what prompted those vehicles to provide additional space, which lowers risk for whatever degree of progress the emergency response driver decided to make. Others placed themselves in front of the obstacle so to not cause the emergency response vehicle to need to swerve between them all, potentially with a patient sensitive to movement in the back (they had no way to know if this was the case or not). Weaving in a high bodied vehicle also decreases it's stability more in a setting where all other road users are prioritising personal legality than one where the emergency vehicle is making use of a configuration of vehicle positions that enable a more direct path due to other road users temporarily disregarding their personal legality, lowering the risk of the situation for a comparable degree of progress for the emergency vehicle. The Roadcraft standard they're required to drive to states the importance of vehicle stability both while and while not responding to an emergency, along with distances to hazards or potential sources of hazards which are dramatically reduced when the emergency vehicle is forced to use a narrow lane at the edge of the road rather than the space produced from all vehicles parting as far from the middle as possible. I imagine this will also be why many other European countries specify long lists of exemptions for clearing the way for emergency vehicles, from mounting kerbs, running red lights, entering areas otherwise prohibited under road traffic laws such as cycle paths, pedestrian crossings and bus lanes, etc, and why the emergency corridor is more widely accepted as the go to method of clearing multi-lane unidirectional carriageways, regardless of the presence of a hard shoulder, etc, unlike in the UK. The UK only specifies drivers create an emergency corridor when there isn't a hard shoulder such as on all-lanes-running motorways, as a crutch to their lack of forethought rather than making that the standard approach everywhere. This means emergency vehicles should technically default to the hard shoulder in heavier traffic, but for every bridge support, sliproad and other hard shoulder reducing/occupying infrastructure, should cross however many lanes sit between there straddling the left line of the rightmost overtaking lane, then return to the hard shoulder for however little distance this continues. Trying to fight through dense traffic every time will only increase travel time, just like if the ambulance here tried to use the bus lane every time. It also causes confusion amongst other road users because the emergency vehicle won't have a standard placement in traffic, and where there's varying degrees of space at the side of the road or varying use hard shoulder, there's sure to be drivers trying to move opposing one another as one tries to make more space next to a partial hard shoulder or empty an active running lane 1 that's still marked as what many would identify as a hard shoulder while others are trying to move into those spaces to clear a corridor to the left of the rightmost lane and yet more try to empty a space to the right of the rightmost overtaking lane trying to apply the free-flowing rules.

@hamshirerpc9205 Жыл бұрын

Great drive as always mate.

@mortgagewizard40 Жыл бұрын

ffs people, it doesnt take much to gently mount the central ,do it slowly and you wont damage your tyres or wheels. Same as for the kerb, if there are no pedestrians there, takes less than 20 seconds. Anyway. Brilliant video as always,

@fwof3347 Жыл бұрын

apart from the fact it’s a criminal offence and contravenes councils parking enforcement.. and they will lvoe to fine a driver for doing the right thing. You can’t no lame a driver for not risking a ticket .. I would never mount a curb, enter bus lane during hours etc.

@mortgagewizard40 Жыл бұрын

@@fwof3347 its not a permanent stop ,so cant be penalised,

@hazyblue69 Жыл бұрын

@@mortgagewizard40It doesn't have to be a permanent stop for it to be a violation. It can still be a fine.

@aaroncampbell2314 Жыл бұрын

Shouldn't be pulling to the right in any circumstance. This is the UK. Drivers should pull to the left and therefore should not be near the central res when giving way to a blue light vehicle

@hazyblue69 Жыл бұрын

@@aaroncampbell2314 The highway code doesn't specify which side of the road to pull over to. In some instances it is safer to pull over to the right against the central reservation. What you shouldn't do is mount the pavement, that is illegal.

@Paws4thot Жыл бұрын

Some good deviations going on to give you a clear run there.

@robnewman6101 10 ай бұрын

21st Century British Emergency Services.

@franktuckwell196 7 ай бұрын

Years ago, driving in London, up Borough high street, very narrow, one way about 17:30 and a fire engine on blues & twos managed the parting of the ways. Somehow all the traffic managed to squeeze out of the way letting the fire engine straight through the middle. Then traffic edged back to its old course. Lets face it, that emergency vehicle could be coming to your aid and you would want everything to get out of their way eh? Great bit of driving by the professionals.

@optrexsmith2957 Жыл бұрын

Great response driving

@lizzyfloppet Жыл бұрын

Do you have bullhorn equipped on these?

@iTzCorey Жыл бұрын

8:05 they are fitted with them but only used when extra encouragement is needed.

@hazyblue69 Жыл бұрын

Bull horn was also used just after 1:38

@mgplayz3230 Жыл бұрын

7:10 so many ambulances around.

@robnewman6101 10 ай бұрын

Action Stations.

@gregg.d 3 ай бұрын

In my head I just did some James Ward style commentary and got out of breath 😅

@chrisgaming4023 4 ай бұрын

Nice

@AviationLover-hl2fv 5 ай бұрын

I once went over tge middle curb pavement thingy do ambulance could go through

@connor6585 Жыл бұрын

So at 5:25 the ambulance pulls out and almost hits the pole? guessing that’s the near miss? why did they even attempt that.

@iTzCorey Жыл бұрын

They went the wrong way and tried to do a uturn but seems they was unsure if they had cleared the lamp post enough to keep going.

@connor6585 Жыл бұрын

@@iTzCorey Probably had 8 different parking sensors going off 🤣

@hannessmith8979 Жыл бұрын

A lot of good awareness here from drivers but pedestrians? hell no wtf.

@AviationLover-hl2fv 5 ай бұрын

I noticed a random lady shamelessly crossing the road

@connor6585 Жыл бұрын

Seen someone comment about the thumbnail and I like it as it matches St John’s theme but on your phone you can’t see the #23

@iTzCorey Жыл бұрын

Tbh when I make the thumbnails it’s usually based on what it looks like on PC, I’ll have a look, thanks.

@connor6585 Жыл бұрын

@@iTzCorey The others look fine it’s just the video number 23 you can hardly see and np

@danielwalker296 Жыл бұрын

Great vid as always 💯would you say people prefer watching these runs over Chris Martins?

@iTzCorey Жыл бұрын

In general, I would say no but it also depends on what people want to watch I guess, my content shows transport runs and occasional RRV runs but mostly just your typical ambulance responding in a van to a call, Chris is a senior paramedic who also does charity work and has access to a wide range of vehicles etc and pretty much has no limits to what he can do and show on his channel, if people enjoy blue light content I would imagine they have subbed to us both so they can watch fast responses in different cars by a very experienced paramedic in high quality and also longer transport runs showing what your everyday paramedic gets up to on a run as the level of response is different and creates its own challenges. Personally, as someone who enjoys blue light content, I like it all lol! someone asked me earlier but I was one of the first people to sub to Chris as I watched his first run about 8 minutes after it went live and I always watch his videos.

@danielwalker296 Жыл бұрын

Fair enough. What car do you prefer the Audi or VRS?@@iTzCorey

@iTzCorey Жыл бұрын

Hard to pick one really 🤣 I think the Audi looks better in general and has better lights and sirens but the VRS seems the better choice for a paramedic and has more response, glad he had the lighting pattern changed on the audi but if it was me I would have requested RSG sirens with all 4 tones and bullhorn as he always has to use the horn for encouragement, give it a few years he’ll be getting a new car anyway 🤣

@joshmorley6757 Жыл бұрын

Will any of your other runs feature hilo sirens?

@iTzCorey Жыл бұрын

Sadly not, most vehicles now are fitted with just standard RSG tones that only include the wail, yelp, phaser, some vehicles get fitted with RSG that has 4 tones mixed with the rumbler. The St Johns ambulance service mostly uses just the standard 3 tones, air ambulance videos i have on my channel feature a premier hazard hi lo though but my newer stuff doesn't have hi lo tones, seems this tone is being faded out for general response its mostly your private ambulances etc that get fitted with the RSG rumbler kit that includes hi lo tones, fleet around me none have hi lo tones at all, some just got upgraded to RSG 32 tones but just the 3 standard tones.

@joshmorley6757 Жыл бұрын

Why do you think they are fading the tone out though? seems useful@@iTzCorey

@iTzCorey Жыл бұрын

I really like the hi lo tone i always say its the wail and phaser mixed together as it does the job of two siren tones in one, really effective as well but yeah i'm not sure why its being faded out, i think its maybe to do with the tone cycle and having 3 tones is more ideal than having to cycle through 4 but who knows, content i MIGHT have coming soon may feature hi lo tones but i don't know yet.@@joshmorley6757 Also, just want to clarify i am talking about my local fleet no longer having hilo tones and also my opinion is based on me seeing hundreds of blue light runs and barely any have hilo tones now.

@iTzCorey Жыл бұрын

Update - managed to get a run with hi lo tones lol, releasing next week.

@domwalker4452 Жыл бұрын

Very effective sirens but not linked to the horn?

@iTzCorey Жыл бұрын

Some systems link to the horn but on most modern ambulances now it doesn’t seem the case, sirens on this vehicle are controlled by a button on a stalk normally used as a radio button.