Whats the fastest you ambulance can go?

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Yesterday my partner got it up to 94mph on the freeway downhill and I was able to get it up to 93mph that night. It pretty much topped out at 93-95 downhill.

What is the fastest your rig can go?
 
*Sarcasm on* I don't consider it a productive day until I have the speedometer wrapped around to 15 again and my partner is wailing for mercy louder than the siren. *Sarcasm off* Seriously with this thread though? I don't think I'd be advertising how poor my driving choices were on a public forum.
 
Sheer stupidity...I vote for a thread lock down (if I had that privilege).
 
emtsocal said:
Yesterday my partner got it up to 94mph on the freeway downhill and I was able to get it up to 93mph that night. It pretty much topped out at 93-95 downhill.

What is the fastest your rig can go?
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Mind telling us the area so we know to avoid it.

Lights and sirens do not save lives.... and they don't really affect transport times...lights and sirens does not mean speed and get there fast.... lights and sirens are designed so you can make a smooth direct path to where you are going.
 
It appears the OP works for Americare ambulance. I know a supervisor from there is a member here hopefully they see this and will can this $*** head. Talk about stupidity.
 
70mph is the fastest I have gone. Speeding in an ambulance is an extremely stupid and dangerous thing to do.
 
DesertEMT66 said:
70mph is the fastest I have gone. Speeding in an ambulance is an extremely stupid and dangerous thing to do.
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Almost as stupid...putting it in writing on a popular forum where your employer is easy to identify.
 
emtsocal said:
Yesterday my partner got it up to 94mph on the freeway downhill and I was able to get it up to 93mph that night. It pretty much topped out at 93-95 downhill.

What is the fastest your rig can go?
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Please tell me this was in the new grand theft auto game and not in real life
 
Jim37F said:
Please tell me this was in the new grand theft auto game and not in real life
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I doubt so or else his post would have probably included "running over some hookers, shooting some citizens, and blowing up a helicopter".
 
DesertEMT66 said:
70mph is the fastest I have gone. Speeding in an ambulance is an extremely stupid and dangerous thing to do.
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I have done over 100.... kmh
 
I have caught myself cruising down the highway and looked down and thought oops, I better put my cruise on. I'm a little lead footed today. Of course there was no patient on at the time and we were headed back from a transfer. So I set it at 67 in a 65 . I'm a rebel.

In all seriousness, we are not allowed to go high speeds in our rig, nor would I want to. I have enough to look out for if I'm driving emergent, why add dangerous speeds on top of it. 90+ ? With my crew in the back? No way how would they survive that? How would a small car going through an intersection make out? They wouldn't . Use your head!
 
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When we go above 72 mph I think, it alerts our dispatch. They can see our location, speed, and if we are going CODE 3 or not. They can also unlock our ambulance for us.

Just because it's CODE 3 doesn't mean we have to go 10 mph over the speed limit (law is up to 15 mph, 10 mph is company policy). Like others said, smooth safe driving is more important.

I once had two transports from the same sending and receiving facility in a row that is about 19 miles apart. One CODE 3, one not. Surprisingly, we saved 4 minutes (I would've thought seconds up to a minute). Maybe we recorded the time incorrectly, or also most of the transport is on a busy street with tons of lights. Still, 4 minutes is not worth risking my life, my crews' lives, the patient's life, or the public.
 
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I once saw an ambulance going 95 on the way back from the hospital to the station, no lights or sirens
 
I got ours up to 58 in a 55. :blush:
Speeding is bad :nod:
 
Our units are governed at 82, but we're only allowed to do 10 over the posted speed limit.
 
75... That's out limit on the freeways (cause it's the speedlimit out here). I know when I worked in Texas we could hit just about 80 in our Medium Duty (but the speed limit on that freeway is 80). One of the local services which I no longer work for have a habit, that pisses everyone off and is contributing to them going under, of going everywhere at 95mph (the max governed speed of their units)


EDIT: I hope that supervisor sees this and can figure out who the hell it was. They need to be disciplined a bit
 
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