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Funny about the whacker comment, i assumed it was a fire truck
 
You can see the flashing lights of the "whacker" reflected in the ambulance's striping. The camera is too steady, it must be a drive-cam. I'd suspect its a supervisor's vehicle or a PRU responding with the ambulance.

Anyone who's driven on winter roads can say that the driver did a good job of keeping the ambulance on the road and not hitting anyone!
 
Accidents happen...speeds did not look excessive. Good job on the camera vehicle not not hit the ambulance.
 
remote_medic said:
Accidents happen...speeds did not look excessive. Good job on the camera vehicle not not hit the ambulance.
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Had he been further back as should have been even on ice he would have been able to safely stop rather than destroy peoples property. If that was my yard he tore up I assure you he had better have money to pay to fix it up.
 
The driver of the second vehicle was pretty darn far back from what I saw - and neither looked to be going that fast (maybe 30ish tops), though drive cams always look faster and can be hard to judge. As everyone has said, with ice, sometimes all bets are off - and even with those conditions the second driver did a very good job not hitting anything. If the driver had tried to stop on the road than he would likely would have locked his brakes and spun also - instead he kept his wits about him and drove around the danger maintaining as much control as possible over the vehicle. trenching yard > hitting ambulance/other cars on road.

One more vote for the "from the south" theory.
 
when medic 417 first responded on page one someone suggested he/she was probably from the south, and thus not familiar with driving on ice. I'm agreeing with that guess.
 
emtbill said:
The best part is the stupid wacker filming while following the ambulance POV because he thought it would be cool, and then having to tear up someone's yard so he doesn't hit the truck himeself! haha...
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What are you talking about POV, that was the chief's car!
 
jrm818 said:
when medic 417 first responded on page one someone suggested he/she was probably from the south, and thus not familiar with driving on ice. I'm agreeing with that guess.
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Yes from the south but I have spent much time on the ice. So not proof of jack crap.
 
Whackers have POV lights too! That was just my first impression though, and I was just trying to make a joke; it could certainly be a chief or officer's car, though in my neck of the woods our chiefs' cars don't have camera's. Also, I don't think a chief or police officer would put music to the video and put it on youtube! :)
 
Our ops director has a whole montage of video clips with music to it that he plays at all of our meetings to remind us to drive safely. In ours the music is mostly to cover the fact that in 90% of the videos the medics are *****ing about the ops director right when the accident happens.
 
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