Why Are UK Emergency Vehicles So Cool?
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I watch these videos of Americans reacting to British ways of life and it really makes me proud to be British!
I know!!!!
The UK driving instructors teach you how to respond as a driver this helps everyone react in a calm controlled manner which makes life easier for the emergency services because they can usually predict what a calm driver will do but a panicked one is dangerous.
I was a firefighter for over five years here in the UK. It was a privilege (and a buzz) to serve my own community, but it's not a nice job. I've witnessed things I wish I could forget.
Thanks Man, I always have huge respect for those who go into Public Services
@@wembley636 😊👍
Special people.Humble respect .😊
Thank you for your service
If it’s PTSD make sure you get help. Thanks for your service. I was cut out of a car wreck by the U.K. fire service, with multiple fractures and bleeding internally.
Without their prompt, expert assistance I wouldn’t be here.
If you have a wee small in a buggy, or holding your hand, you tell them to wave at the firemen, police, parameds (not when they are in a rush, just when they are going back to base)
They always wave back. Kids love it.
Squared pattern is standard on emergency vehicles: Red and Yellow squares = fire; Green and Yellow squares = ambulance; Blue and Yellow squares = police.
Called 'Battenberg'
Traffic Police have Black and Yellow too
Green ,red , yellow air ambulance
@@riculfriculfson7243 Black and yellow are not police, they are Highways Agency.
@@_starfiend Good point.
The reason that you were probably recommended it is because of the diversity of the emergency vehicles. I'm at 6:59, and it's something you haven't picked up on. We have BMW's, Volvos, Mitsubishis, Mercedes, and MANY specialised units. Let's carry on watching and see if you pick up on it.
I'm used to seeing this personally. If you travel state to state you will see a variety of models of vehicles used for emergency services. The first time I saw a dodge charger police vehicle I about lost it. I was so used to seeing Crown Victorias as police cars growing up. Now town to town it changes quite a bit.
@@RNTVare they all American makes, or do you regularly seen European or Japanese car makes used in America?
Maybe those who recommended the video thought you might have an interest in seeing vehicles that are not American.
The big difference between U.K emergency vehicles and the USA is in the U.K the sirens are only used approaching traffic islands, junctions or to clear heavy traffic. Once clear the sirens are switched off and it’s blue lights only. In the USA the sirens are blasting out even if the emergency vehicles are on deserted roads.
Depending on the law you have, for example in Italy only blue lights don't give you the right of way to break the CdS (codice della strada), you need to have both on. I don't know if the Netherlands has the same law, because every video i saw, they had always got the siren on
In the UK if you hear blues and twos (lights and sirens) people generally make way.
Some paramedics are trained to a higher than normal standards and are known as Emergency First Responders. They drive performance cars and motorcycles and can administer a wider range of drugs than normal paramedics. We also have them in helicopter air ambulances as well as doctors trained in emergency medicine.
Referring to Jess's observation about fire engine drivers, I used to drive fire engines when they didn't have power steering (old Bedfords) they built your arms up. 😁
Aye, learn how to use that clutch 😊
❤ from Northeast England ❤️
When I was a little boy I thought all fire engines were called Dennis. Thomas the Tank Engine / Dennis the Fire Engine. It made sense to me😀🚂🚒
@@kernow9324
😮 what... I still thought that!
What's wrong with the world 😪
❤️ from Northeast England, where we are devastated by this news... thanks!
5:00
In the uk, when the road is grid locked with cars, like u said earlier, we just pull to the side, its like a little passageway, saves time and its more efficient then just stopping there and waiting for the traffic lights to go.
When I was on holiday in San Francisco I heard the unmistakeable sirens of some emergency vehicles nearby. I felt like a little kid while standing there waiting to see them. I wasn't disappointed when a fire truck/fire engine passed by, its horn sounding as well. I loved it!
I used to drive ambulance and rapid response cars here in the UK. People do try hard to let emergency vehicles through but we have small over crowded roads and it's not easy. The training focuses a lot on calm and safe driving in an emergency. It is actually illegal for people to mount curbs and drive through red lights to allow emergency vehicles through. In times like these, if you are doing your job properly, you usually switch the sirens off and hold back in order not to pressure people into doing these things. You mentioned ambulances taking a long time to get to people here in the UK. It's true sadly. Our health service is buckling and people are waiting hours for emergency ambulances. For non emergencies, sometimes it can be more than a day! It's getting really really bad. Paramedics are waiting as long as 8 hours to hand patients over in emergency departments. It's a living hell at times. I don't have much faith in the health service I work for. It's very concerning.
3:50 As you can see, There is multiple other cars in the same lane as the Police car. So, The people in the left hand lane hold back so that the people in the right hand lane can merge into the left lane to let the emergency vehicle through.
The lights and sirens simply mean ‘make a hole.’ The divers can do that any-way they want, as long as it results in the required hole.
I was in Oxford (UK) a few years ago, and I heard the sirens. Then I saw the ambulance coming towards me on the other side of the road.
Someone on the other side of the road (same side as the ambulance) stopped, right next to a pedestrian traffic island, effectively blocking that side of the road.
I stopped, in the middle of my side of the road, blocking it for vehicles behind me, before the traffic island. The ambulance driver looked like ‘where to now?’
I pointed directly at her, pointed past the island on my side of the road and said ‘go!’ She saw, read my lips. Then went. I got a wave from the person not driving.
My passenger said ‘well, someon is paying attention.’
You only have to pull over/ get out of the way.
If your vehicle is in the same lane as the emergency vehicle 😉
“So what do you do on your day off? “ Oh, I stand in the rain filming emergency service vehicles on my phone”
😂😂😂😂 new spin on train spotting.
And get millions of views and get paid thousands of pounds to stand in the street for a bit 😂👌
Silly statement. If you dont get the point of the video, you been standing too long in the rain.
@@BergenDev What exactly is there to “get” about some random obsessive standing around a town or city centre filming emergency vehicles on their phone?? They are not some mystery phenomenon, most normal people see and hear them on a daily basis.
@@Supersleuth42 The fact you keep saying it's on "their phone" shows how little you know about it.
It's not.. it's often on very expensive cameras the same as hobbies such as plane spotting..
In the uk, we call them *fire engines* and we walk on the *pavement* which is the correct english term lol
The *red ambulance* vehicles are more advanced and usually called out if the situation is really seriously and they need high additional support which also includes *London air ambulance* vehicle
Also U.K. has helicopter ambulances for remote accidents and these carry a qualified doctor and paramedics. Most large hospitals in the U.K. have Helipads on their rooftops.
My daughter is an incident commander in the fire department of the factory complex where she works as a production controller. The "Emergency Response Team" deals with problems within the site and they have knowledge of the materials and equipment used. They only have a small fire engine but it has "music and lights"!
I'd recommend you to watch Blue Light, aware we have different rules about what to do when there is an emergency vehicle behind or approaching.
2:28 you will notice the English and Scottish Gaelic translation of the word Ambulance. In Scotland we speak Scottish-Gaelic and English
English: Ambulance
Scottish-Gaelic: Ambaileans
Another waste of money from the SNP... just how many Scot's speak anything but English....
In Wales there is also alternative spelling in Welsh.
You will see on some vehicles word is written in reverse, so when seen in mirror you can read it.
5:22 here in the UK, on motorways (freeways), we have a lane known as the hard shoulder. It is only to be used in emergencies, such as a brreakdown, and emergency phones are situated at affixed distances to inforrm appropriate authorities. It also allows emergency vehicles to pass any blockages or traffic caused by an incident further down the carriageway. Using the hard shoulder at any time other than an emergency is an offence.
It should be pointed out they tend to turn the sirens off at junctions or semi heavy traffic because they don't want people to panic and cause an accident. When cleared they turn them back on. That's why the police car at the junction didn't immediately move when there was one behind. They knew if they drove out the car behind would feel pressured to move out and potentially get hit because they didn't look
Cobra Emergency channel tracks the movement of UK emergency services and military. Including home coming of naval ships, protection of Royal Family etc
Apparently in Germany if there is a traffic jam the cars pull to the outside of the lanes to allow a path for emergency vehicles to go directly down the centre. I dot t know how true it is but fantastic idea
We do this in the UK as well.
@@alisonsmith4801 we don't do this in the UK. Germany has the 'Rettungsgasse', in which the gap must always be created in standstill traffic, irrespective of whether an emergency vehicle is coming. In the UK we only create the gap once an emergency vehicle is coming.
@Abi-bi6cb Yeah your right... I misread your comment.. apologies.
@@alisonsmith4801 No need to apologise! We all learn something new every day :)
We have bus lanes that cars are not allowed to use, that allow the emergency services to use these lanes and get through traffic easier
5:03, especially in Central London (but all over the country) there are roads that are bus/taxi only - emergency vehicles are allowed down those.
The sign for permit control zone is where the local residents have a right to park, they sometimes have some spaces where you can pay but unless you are visiting someone’s residence where they have residents parking vouchers that you display. They often have signs indicating the permitted parking times.
In the UK if you deliberately Impede an emergency vehicle with Blues and twos you can get fined and points on your licence as all vehicles have cameras on board and get the owners details from the registration.
To add to this, even if an emergency vehicle is behind you at a red traffic light and there is no way for the emergency vehicle to get around you, you cannot move forward out of the way through the red light as this will be illegal and also get you a fine and points on your licence. To me, this law completely goes against human nature to get out of the way asap.
The Highway code always says, when it is safe to do so, give clear indication of your intentions, and let an emergency vehicle past. What you must not do is anything that would cause you to break a rule in the law, or highway code to let them through.
@@stevefrost64there’s a reason for that. The red light is protecting a hazard and it might not even be obvious/visible to you. If you go through the red light and cause an incident, the emergency vehicle then has to stop and doesn’t get to where it was going at all. It’s better to wait a few seconds.
As an emergency spotter in the uk, I can totally confirm the look people give me when I'm filming them.
UK Fire engines run with a full tank of water to immediately start attacking fires on arrival, a member of the crew locates the nearest hydrant to replenish the tank and also to add additional hoses to fight the fire(s)
Heya guys, just came across this video and I think it is brilliant to see so many people from other countries being so intrigued in the UK Emergency Services. Being from the UK, I would be more than happy to sit down with you guys and go through videos like this and others similar to this and give you guys a better understanding of how things here and very different. If this sounds like something that you guys would be happy to do then please do reach out :)
I used to work on the Euston Road in London which is such a busy road and and all the cars just pull over and stop and create a third lane on what is effectively a two lane road, its an amazing sight.
As an EMT in the US for 10 years, it is traffic law in the US to pull over and yield to emergency vehicles who display flashing lights and stren.
I am the same in the UK and we dont have that law . Basically people pull to the side and let is pass out of courtesy , if dont have to do it by law . Dont ask why that is .
I think we have to make a hole, but that's all.
All the hazard patterns/decals on our emergency vehicles in the uk are called Battenburg. All emergency vehicles have there own set colour. For example police are yellow and blue, fire is yellow and red, ambulance is yellow and green, and one not shown in this video but it’s called Highways England (they manage our motorways/highways) is yellow and black
Highways England IS NOT an EMERGENCY service, it is there to assist with problems on the Highways and byways, they have no powers to do anything, other than to put warnings in place and maybe block a lane to protect a recovery/breakdown service at the scene of an accident etc, the UK only has 3 Emergency Services
@@nemesismcc so the coastguard, life boats, mountain rescue,cave rescue and the search and rescue who also are allowed by law to use blue lights and sirens and are all contactable by the emergency telephone number 999 are according to you not emergency services.
I believe that in the USA cars are meant to stop if they hear siren. In the U.K. you move over to give them right of way. PLEASE NOTE, U.K. police using siren must still obey traffic laws in that they can only go through red lights if it’s safe, if police cause an accident they have to go to court they don’t get any special immunity like in the States. Also ambulance services in the UK for ALL is free under the NHS. We don’t pay for an ambulance to take us to the hospital - be it a car crash or someone who calls from home for medical assistance. Your call is screened and ambulances are dispatched on a priority basis level. Police cars are assigned calls it’s not a free for-all chase option in the U.K.
Good luck with the 5 hour wait for an Ambulance at the minute though😂
Think they have a 1.5x speed limit as well so a 30mph limit would allow 45 mph as long as blues and twos were going, 70 would be 105...
@@alistairhackney 5 hour wait , you must be living in an expensive ambulance ok every corner just waiting town somewhere in the south of the country - “ up North here” we call 999 and are offered a booking time slot. It’s normally only 2-5 days on a week day, but let’s be honest, we’re not just getting an ambulance it is actually the hospital accident and emergency bed as well as the waiting time in A&E is now under control and the hospital waiting time is 48 hours or death (whichever one comes first). I looked into going private medical insurance but they don’t send out ambulances, I said to the sales person, “oh is it Uber that you guys have instead “? She was not amused - said if I was not serious I shouldn’t be wasting her time on the call 🤣🤣. I assured her that at her quote level there was nothing to be laughing about. My quote was about £400 or more if I wanted no excess 🤣🤣
@@TheRealityleak some old lady in London lay on her living room floor with her broken hip for 12 hours waiting for the ambulance. Then she had another long wait in the ambulance queue and the hospital. This was pre election, so let’s see if Starmer’s group of politicians can do something better. They say we’re employing more Doctors, Nurses and ancillary staff - nobody ever mentions that these people need to be trained first. Last time I checked none of these people were on short training courses.
@@TSM-908 Well - part of the issue is that the main wards can't discharge people to social care as there's no space, so a and e can't get people into beds because they're being blocked, so paramedics can't get people off the ambulances into a and e because there's no space. So ambulances can't attend emergencies because their ambulance still has a patient in it. It's a domino effect.
There are different types of police emergency vehicles. If interested, Cop Car Workshop shows how they maintain the fleet used by Cheshire police, both marked and unmarked.
Here is Scotland there are a few cut outs that allow emergency vehicles to bypass known traffic hot spots, but there are not that many.
This video is about showing the different types of emergency vehicles we use over here who are responding to emergency calls.
We do not have to stop here provided the emergency vehicle can have access on its route. What is helpful is to pull either side and indicate and slow. That way they know you have seen them. Our roads are far too small to have emergency only lanes. We are not permitted to break road laws even when there is an emergency vehicle behind. We do though.
Hi Mike,Jess,I've been driving a few years let's say,the best way to think of it, when you hear the emergency services,just think it might be coming for someone you know,or family god forbid,it's better being a couple minutes late, You've helped in a little way to do good, emergency services if need be can push you out of the way to get through,
The different colour patterns on the vehicles denote which Emergency Service they belong to!
In 2006. Stond onze Auto in de brand. Achter ons huis, uit 1925. En de brandweer, moest geparkeerd auto's rammen. Om, de auto te laten uit branden. En ons huis te redden. Geparkeerd op een niet toegestane plaats. Sorry dat het je auto is. Maar, als het nodig is. Dan is het geen keuze, maar gewoon door rijden!
Was always taught to keep the flow of traffic going when you encounter emergency services vehicles. I've had a police car follow me for over a mile with its blues and two's on as i was on a bendy country road and i was in a coach and had no where to stop. You cause more issues if you just stop dead on our smaller road network.
I recently had an impromptu ride in an ambulance....fortunately, I live 100 yards from the ambulance and fire station....I can report that the siren isn't so deafening from inside...lol
It’s a 2 lane road so he can pass safely… if it’s a single road we always pull to the side if it’s possible… our roads are a lot smaller than yours , I used to live in Santa Cruz California and couldn’t believe the width of the roads …
I think you guys would love to see a video regarding g soccer crowds around the world or even soccer hooligans around the world. I think you would get a massive shock
No there are not actual roads for emergency vehicles. In the UK it is not a given right that they can cut through traffic lights etc. but sometimes they go on to the other side of the road to get past traffic. We usually pull over to allow them to get by. There is a video where they show an ambulance rapid response car and it follows them to show how they drive in extreme situations. When you said you could tell which county you are in because of the police car that was a Welsh Air Ambulance rapid response car not a police car..
Though of course, you do get them occasionally on motorways - usually as a quck way for the emergency vehicle to turn around.
@@welshgitI was gonna make a comment saying this. On Motorways (The Interstate) there are certain off/on ramps for emergency vehicles only.
I've seen someone else reacting to this video and they were all about the different make and style of vehicles compared to the USA vehicles
I get the siren stress. When my Mum was alive and I had to leave the house for anything, an ambulance would always rush by and I'd have to fight not to go into panic mode. I always held myself together though. Keep some dignity hahahaha And of course, when I got home everything was alright. But even today, I get the same few seconds of deafening panic when I hear a siren.
We are generally taught to keep traffic flowing by driving normally unless you can safely let emergency vehicles through. For example by giving way when you usually wouldn't, keeping far to the left and slowing or stopping if there is room for them to pass on the right, etc. Mainly the emphasis is to stay calm and not do anything erratic which could endanger other road users or worse yet the emergency vehicle itself. And the Highway Code specifically says not to mount the kerb.
In some places (like Birmingham, West Midlands, England), some high streets are completely inaccessible to road users and have bollards blocking their path. But when an emergency service vehicle needs to access it to shortcut or get to someone who needs them (within the blocked off zone), the bollards will collapse and temporarily go underground letting them in.
Pretty much every fire engine and ambulance in the UK has public safety messaging like that in the UK. Makes sense as they are billboard shaped things that people look at.
Here in Finland we have this new recommendation, that when you see an emergency vehicle behind you, DO NOT SLOW DOWN suddenly or do any fast moves. Just turn on your hazards to notify the emergency vehicle that you have seen it, and carry on. Let them make the decisions, so that nothing too fast movements happen at high speeds. That has been the wish from emergency professionals.
Naturally you have to make way at red light or at a standing line and that's the law like in anywhere, but at speeds, just stay predictable.
Most of us in Britain do stop when emergency vehicles are coming up, it's just the odd few who don't. Some people panic and don't know how to react.
8:56 this is the fire service I call when there is a fire ( Merseyside Fire And Rescue )
Emergency vehicles are not allowed to force people out of a junction. That is why most of the time they will turn their sirens off at a junction and wait for it to be safe before turning them back on. Yes you have to move over and make room if possible but you're not allowed to jump red lights in any situation unless you are of course an emergency vehicle. We are told here in the UK that they are the professional drivers who have been trained, they will work out a good route around, let them sort it out.
Could have been because of the different types,colours and sounds of each vehicle and how calm people react to them as they approach.
One interesting fact that I believe many drivers are unaware of is that regardless of the emergency vehicle, you cannot break the law in terms of driving legislation to ‘make way’ for them. I think many still think you can break red lights for example when the truth is, you cannot. The only time you should ‘make way’ is when they are travelling with blue lights and sirens….. however if you’re anything like me, i tend to make way regardless! I can’t help feeling guilty when they’re behind me regardless of how I’m driving.
Think this just a video of what the vehicles look like in another country
I suggest you look at one of Chris Martin's videos. Chis is Paramedic/Rapid Response Vehicle driver. It shows him on actual responses driving through various traffic situations. It is interesting to see a drive from the point of view of an emergency vehicle driver.
In the UK, and probably most places in the world, when you see flashing lights and sirens it's mandatory to pull to the side of the road and allow them to pass without restriction.
Btw, up to 2019, just before Covid, I flew to Tampa every year for years and years. My hobby was filming lightning. I used to stay at the Suburban on Hillsborough Avenue, which was only 1.5 miles from Tampa Airport, which was my favourite spot to film.
The 1st time I saw one your fire trucks was when I was filming lightning. They are 3 times the size of ours in the UK. Have it on video 👌
I remember as a kid I'd watch dukes of hazard and see the cop cars drifting etc... id go outside after and see a panda with a blue light on and the worst siren ever lol.
11:49 this ones an Ambulance as stated on the rear (and the fact it has yellow and green reflective markings) - I think that police markings are repetitive and pretty much all the same across all the UK and respective country’s / county’s
At traffic junctions, the emergency vehicles cannot force other vehicles that are stopped at those junctions (at a redlight etc.) to move forward because it means that they are making them break UK traffic laws, you will notice then that they stay behind them with their sirens off, then on again once the traffic starts to move.
The blue and yellow 'battenberg' pattern on the UK police vehicles isn't just an aesthetic choice. Scientific research by the police found that the combination of fluorescent yellow and retroreflective blue squares was the most visible when seen against a visually cluttered background such as a city street. The same is true of the red and yellow chevrons on the rear end, it stands out against other vehicles.
and the red and yellow, and green and yellow... it's a good system and it works... also, those blue lights, they can be blinding, but you're not going to miss them... which is why all the emergency services have them...
I had a friend who was a fireman. He said 'we do an important, dangerous, and serious job ....... but any fireman who says he doesn't enjoy going through town with the lights & sirens on is a liar'.
UK Emergency sirens "woop and wail" because that sound travels further than other sounds. Try checking out some of the Continental Europe Emergence Vehicle and their drivers responces especially on their Interstate Roads.
Can't remember which Lee Evans live show,but when he starts talking about the older sirens- nee naw nee naw😄
Ah the joys of controlled parking zones :) Most people completely blank those signs - basically it means anything in the boundary has the parking restrictions as denoted on the sign, as opposed to plastering signs everywhere with the parking restrictions on them. Mostly it's for aesthetic reasons. It's interesting, but also not actually interesting. Central Edinburgh is a UNESCO World Heritage Site - and you know it's Edinburgh because it has very specific architecture that once you see it it's very hard to unsee. But that's why that one, I've never even been to Edinburgh and I can immediately identify that, that's how specific and arguably iconic that architecture is. But that's why they do that.
Notice how they don't have their hand guns out of the window shooting at random black people?
Heavy traffic you pull over slowly and safely to the left to give as much room as possible!
Oncoming traffic too!!!!
If traffic is light just move left and slow down!!!
Emergency vehicles can't just go across on red lights they must approach and it's up to drivers to allow them to traverse the crossings!!!
Upon hearing/seeing emergency vehicles on motorway/ highway you anticipate as they get closer you'll notice rear vehicles moving and you'll do the same to open up a corridor
This is all over Europe.
I think you should react to an onboard view of an emergency vehicle in the uk
I have ASD and since I was very young I could tell you which emergency services were approaching without looking. That was in England and now in Australia
Another thing. A UK FIRE ENGINE carries 475.5 US gallons of water, (1800 litres) to immediately fight a fire before having to find a hydrant.
I needed an ambulance on Sunday at 4am. As I wasn't an emergency I was told it could take 10 hours, It actually arrived within 2 hours. Free here, $10k in the US?
At the hospital I had three or four blood tests, 2 X-Rays, 2 MRI, brain scans, various other scans and things. Two doctors and a consultant. All for free. Meanwhile wife and I were given free refreshments, breakfast, lunch and dinner. Their care and attention made me feel humble. All free.
Last year my son holidayed in the UK with his family. His 3-year old had an ear infection. They got free consultation and free prescription drugs but complained they had to drive 10 miles. Our NHS is the best!
Our emergency services prefer that traffic keep moving at the usual speed and pull out of the way only if necessary. So no slamming the brakes on and throwing the car onto the curb, unless that's the only option. Smooth traffic flow gets them there more quickly.
I mean, you've absolutely made the day/week of the person who requested this and this is likely a hobby or interest of theirs. But the rest of us are probably thinking... Why this video? I suppose at least you got to see some streets in the UK, including the opening being in Scotland rather than just London.
If an emergency vehicle is behind you, you still have to abide by traffic laws. You aren't allowed to mount pavements (sidewalks), or go through a red light to let them through. You are to move across and let them through when it is safe to do so. Also, if they have a clear path through, for example, two lanes, there is no requirement to pull over.
I was once stopped at a traffic lights on red and an ambulance came up behind me with lights flashing and siren wailing. I new I shouldn't go through on red so I waited ( about 15 seconds ), the lights changed and I went forward and then moved to the side letting him through, the ambulance man in the passenger seat scowled at me as they went past.
You can always tell what county police and fire engines are from in England, because they'll say like Derbyshire Police or Derbyshire Fire and Rescue. Easier to spot on fire engines because it's a much bigger font generally. Ambulance is a bit more tricky, because the ambulance service regions don't line up with counties, so it would be North East/North West/East Midlands/West Midlands/East of England/London/South Central/South West Ambulance Service. Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales each only have a singular ambulance service. Northern Ireland and Scotland each have a singular fire and police service, whereas Wales has two of each: North and South.
But basically, if you know where to look, it says what county it is.
The ambulance services are divided into regions, a group of counties. They have no regard to county boundaries when working.
I’ve been a professional driver in Scotland for 20 years and still have no idea what Edinburgh’s “Peripheral Control zone” signs mean.
In the UK the rule is to pullover on a normal road but not to stop on dual carriages ways or motorways.
The last one is from what looks like Edinburgh but is definitely Scotland. A Peripheral Control Zone is just for parking outside of the central zone, it's nothing interesting.
The police motorcycles in the end credits are from the Special Escort Group, responsible for escorting Royalty and VIPs through London traffic on unmarked bikes, they carry sidearms and also (it's rumoured) an H&K MP5 machine pistol in one of their panniers. Mike will be impressed, they never use sirens, just whistles.
I was in a UK ambulance ages ago and the paramedic showed me that there are cat flap doors for glove cubbies, they even say cat flap on them.
You want to watch the emergency response in Holland, unbelievable. Also, in Germany how if there is an accident on the autobahn the traffic 'parks' on either side of the road.
13:30 this clip is in Edinburgh, I think all the previous clips to this have been England, but I cant be sure
Hindering an emergency vehicle, is something you get a 260 USD fine for, at least in The Netherlands. I am sure, it is at least the same in the UK.
Jess, no there are not specific emergency vehicle lanes, at least I am assuming that is what you mean. They normally do have access to buslanes, tramlanes etc. But in Europe it is common that on roads with 2 lanes or more, people create an emergency lane in the middle, by the left lane having cars go to the extreme left and the right lane going to the extreme right, creating space in the middle that should be big enough for emergency vehicles to go through.
I don't know if you noticed, but in the UK, for emergency vehicles, there is a colour "code"... firstly, everything has the bright yellow, but police have blue and yellow, fire have red and yellow... and ambulances are green and yellow... the lights are always blue, because, quite simpoly, if you see a blue flasing light on one these vehiclles they are blinlding (that idea works!!)... one last thing, if you see a vehicle with a green flasing light, it's a doctor, so get your backside out of the way!! (i could go on, but...)
But those doctors are not authorised to break traffic laws.
Police, fire and ambulance can go through red traffic lights, but under caution, they can be prosecuted if they cause accident.
Might have been recommended just as a comparison with your emergency vehicles? There are videos of those on the u-tube.
Back in the day Police cars were all white with a red stripe along the middle giving it the nickname 'Jam sandwich' now they are Battenberg pattern lol.
Think this video is to show the regional assortments of styles of emergency vehicles. Not the easiest to react to. We do and are required to allow them through if safe to do so but wouldn't just stop if not necessary because they can get through anyway.
and remember all the ambulances are free,
"Emergency vehicles" is such a colloquial term for a paddy wagon.
In the UK we consider the person who needs and ambulance. We move out of the way calmly. One day it may be us.
we even have cop trucks to catch you out as they can stair down at you using mobile phone use and cop bus vehicle
In England if you ask a fireman to survey your house for smoke alarms and fire safety and if they think you need a fire alarm they install it free of charge. I am not sure if that is the same in other parts of the world.
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A couple of things to notice
All emergency vehicles have the same set of sirens as it doesn't matter what the emergency is... it's an emergency
Also, there are no BLUE lights allowed on our roads, so any blue light can only be emergency vehicles
And.... it's not a video that I would have recommend. Interesting AT MOST
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Yep cant watch this loud in the UK, have headphones on ready and its loud af.
11:13 Scania P270 270hps 5000 liters water onboaerd 6 pax + equipment total 12,5 tons / 27533 lbs
02:10 Volkswagen Traveler 150kW / 205 hps 1,7 tons / 3,745 lbs
I don't understand why you we're asked to react to this one it's not the normal type of thing you would be interested in.
Me neither!
@@tradeladder146Why's that.
@@CliveAdlam-yn8uz it's not there normal subject of interest at the start of the video they didn't know how to react.
Loads of Americans have been reacting to this for some reason lately.
It’s usual for Petrolheads who like to see the different liveries and identity the various vehicles being used. RUclipsrs like IWRocker.