Half a croissant, on a plate, with a sign in front of it saying '50c'

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Ambulance 2x2
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Living in Florida, it's not uncommon to see an ambulance racing towards you in the rearview mirror. If you're lucky this happens when you're nowhere near an intersection and you can safely pull over. If you're unlucky this happens at a crowded intersection where the ambulance has to wait while you and about fifty other drivers have to figure out how best to create a path through the buildup (drivers waiting to get into the left turn lane rarely move to the right to clear this path).

One solution would be to split up the paramedics. There are always two to an ambulance now, one to drive and one to take care of the patient in the back on the return trip. If we modified a motorcycle and put one of these paramedics on it he'd be able to speed through the narrow gaps in any intersection that was blocked and reach the victim much faster. It wouldn't be long before people learned that this motorcycle would quickly be followed by the regular ambulance, giving them time extra time to move over.

At the accident scene (or house if that's where they were called to), the driver would help the motorcycle patient load the patient into the ambulance and then put the bike on a lift attached to the front of the vehicle before heading to the hospital. We might have to add some kind of counterweight to the back of the ambulance to keep it from becoming top-heavy on the front-end, but this is doable.

Also, the motorcycle paramedic should also have a radio built into his helmet in case he needs to get, or give, updates along the way.


longshot9999, Nov 15 2004

Motorcycle paramedic http://www.freefoto...view.jsp?id=28-01-8
...cool looking bike..... [normzone, Nov 15 2004]


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       I guess its half-baked only in the U.S., because as far as I know there's nothing like it here.

longshot9999, Nov 15 2004
  

       Indeed. Motorcycle paramedics are very common in the UK, carrying quite a lot of equipment on the bike itself and providing emergency care pending the arrival of the ambulance.

david_scothern, Nov 15 2004
  

       yeah, in Sydney and London they have them on push bikes too, complete with defibrillators.

neilp, Nov 15 2004
  


 
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