An accident between an ambulance and a police car left the police car driver in the hospital and the ambulance crew recovering from minor injuries.
The initial investigation shows they were responding to separate incidents and that the ambulance had the green light. All those things aside, I'm glad everyone is OK, considering the police car driver had to be extricated.
Police car drivers are given training to respond with lights and sirens, as are EMS personnel, and if the investigation holds, I wonder if the police car driver will be cited with failure to yield to an emergency vehicle, as EMTs and Paramedics are from time to time when they are the ones at fault.
Likely not, but I hope all police car drivers take this story and also a deep breath when responding, as we all should, and come to a complete stop to break an intersection with red light and siren.
What?
Wat's that you say?
He's not a police car driver? How's it feel to be referred to by only a portion of what you do? MC, I smell a crossover!
We have a tall hill to climb and perhaps we should start with some PSAs for the press.
"The ambulance drivers also were being treated at the hospital, Ramos said."
The initial investigation shows they were responding to separate incidents and that the ambulance had the green light. All those things aside, I'm glad everyone is OK, considering the police car driver had to be extricated.
Police car drivers are given training to respond with lights and sirens, as are EMS personnel, and if the investigation holds, I wonder if the police car driver will be cited with failure to yield to an emergency vehicle, as EMTs and Paramedics are from time to time when they are the ones at fault.
Likely not, but I hope all police car drivers take this story and also a deep breath when responding, as we all should, and come to a complete stop to break an intersection with red light and siren.
What?
Wat's that you say?
He's not a police car driver? How's it feel to be referred to by only a portion of what you do? MC, I smell a crossover!
We have a tall hill to climb and perhaps we should start with some PSAs for the press.
"The ambulance drivers also were being treated at the hospital, Ramos said."
Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/03/06/3454335/emergency-vehicles-crash-into.html#ixzz1GDcFVnyC"
Oh, and this lovely nugget:
"Sorrick said the ambulance company is prevented by privacy regulations from providing the names of the injured medical personnel."
Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/03/06/3454335/emergency-vehicles-crash-into.html#ixzz1GDcjHSyG
So here's a HIPAA quiz (Adding information, creating a new scenario) - Does HIPAA prevent the ambulance company from releasing the names of the injured employees if they were not patients?
-Justin Schorr
Fire engine driver / Ambulance driver
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And I say, if you can't get 'em to stop calling you an ambulance driver, might as well join 'em and own the phrase. Respect isn't conferred with a title anyway.
If the police officer was arresting someone at a particular time, then he wasn't a "police car driver" but a police officer. If the ambulance service member ws giving CPR, then s/he wasn't an "ambulance driver" but a paramedic or whatever.
A (something) driver means someone who is/was driving something. That person could be a Paramedic, police sergeant, senator or the Queen of Britain, but at the time they were, foremost, a driver.
Ron was reading the HIPPA Privacy Summary today.
Mind your own business. :P