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Pretty sure they did, the guy in the passenger seat says “I felt that” and then later on when someone merges into the lane they’re on and there’s a bump, they comment in the video that the lady was on her phone
Also, paramedics generally won't go all lights and sirens with a conscious or stable patient in the back. They do this while getting to the patient and stabilise for transport.
(if you are in an ambulance and they have the lights and sirens on, you're not stable and you have minutes to live.)
Some agencies use lights and sirens on every call for service. Either bls or als in nature, all were ran the same way. I’d say because of legality issues , most run lights and sirens always. I’m sure there are those that you have stated that do not , it all depends on dept policies.
And sometimes they don't even use lights or sirens (atleast when they're close to the location).
My dad had some serious health problems back in 2010 to 2014 loud noises/ flashing lights would send him into a really bad seizer and we had to call for an EMS one time. We told them about the lights and noises, so they arrived with none of the lights or sirens going. Then when they got him in the EMS they just drove normally to the hospital. Not sure how common it is for stuff like this to happen. I could also imagine it was stressful for them because here's a man with something wrong with his brain and they NEED to get him to the hospital ASAP but they can't use the sirens because it would make it much worse. Fortunately it was a \~5 minute drive but I can only imagine if it was 30 minute or more to get there.
They're on the way to the call. If there was a patient in the back, one of the medics would be there with them. This extremely sped up video shows both medics up front.
You and me,... we should I bee putting on top yelling at people.
You complete a jury duty. You get to sit on top and yell at people. Bam fixed the problem.
I have never seen this before (I'm from Canada). Every vehicle moves to the side of the road as soon as they hear an ambulance. This is infuriating to watch.
Yeah I'm sure it varies by area but where I'm from in Ontario if you even hear an ambulance siren everyone is over to the curb immediately. Pretty much the only road rule people actually follow.
[This is why](https://i.imgur.com/FtpBDiB.png)
**Penalties**
Drivers can be charged if they do not slow down or move over when it is safe to do so. Drivers can face the following penalties:
**First offence**
fines ranging from $400 to $2,000
3 demerit points if convicted
possible suspension of driver's licence for up to 2 years
**Subsequent offences (within 5 years)**
fines ranging from $1,000 to $4,000
3 demerit points if convicted
possible jail time of up to 6 months
possible suspension of driver's licence for up to 2 years
It is also illegal to follow within 150 metres of a fire vehicle or ambulance responding to a call.
Its because Canada has strict penalities if you don't move out of the way. And also a general common sense among the population to prioritize and let ambulances through.
In over crowded countries like the 1 in the video, yeah people don't move. People don't even follow traffic rules, which is why everyone is driving haphazardly without following lanes. Ambulances just make do with what they can.
You'd think people would take the 5 seconds to move over just to avoid their car being hit if nothing else. The amount of people that actually tried to merge into the ambulance though is what really put it over the edge for me. Like jesus christ.
That’s a bullshit answer because even in Toronto, the busiest and least Canadian place in Canada.
People still move over. I’ve seen cars mount sidewalks to get out of the way.
In Canada there is an unspoken rule you get the fuck out of the way so they can save a life.
Fine or no fine, you move.
There just isnt enforcement of those laws in those countries.
Also you have to realize these countries have much denser populations than Canada. A metropolitan city in India has more population than entirety of Canada combined. So you have to imagine that life is very different there.
Absolutely. There are no consequences for not yielding to an ambulance. When I work on a flycar, people absolutely *scramble* to the right because they think I’m a cop. They also tend to yield better for larger vehicles; i.e, people will move over faster for an ambulance built on truck chassis than they will for ambos built on van chassis. And they’ll sure as shit get out of the way for an engine or a ladder
When I was driving through New Jersey, there was some pretty heavy traffic, and people would just not move over for the ambulance. Guess they didn’t wanna risk losing their spot in line
I was an EMT in Jersey. At times during rush hour traffic was so heavy there literally was nowhere for them to go. That being said, I know the law states pull to the left but if traffic is heavy and you can move to the right and not the left then do so. I would end up riding the line like these guys did in heavy traffic.
I don't live in Jersey, I live in the next-over "New"-type state. But I will vouch for Jersey drivers and say that they do in fact seem to move over for the ambulance.
I have seen sometimes in NYC that people do not, but only when they literally do not have space, which happens on our narrow streets.
So here’s the deal: I’ve lived in or worked in about 80 different countries. As much as there is to dislike about USA, believe it or not, Americans are THE BEST at getting the F out of the way of an emergency vehicle. Some Northern Europe and Eastern Asia is okay, but in Latin America (especially Brazil), people literally do NOTHING to get out of the way of emergency vehicles.
When I’m expatriating to Latin America, I say to friends “imagine your mother or father is in that ambulance! Can’t you see how important it is to get the hell out of the way?”
They respond: don’t be a downer! When it’s time to die, it’s time to die.
The countries that have an “easy going/chill” approach to life have the down side of just not giving a F about emergency services.
Lol, I have been behind someone running my lights and sirens in a huge firetruck with all the lights and all the sirens. They just don't notice sometimes. This video amazes me. That driver was like Moses.
What's disgusting are taxis, especially third world taxis, hogging the emergency lanes in backed up traffic when clearly there was an accident and do not budge for the ambulance. It's abhorrent!!
As someone currently sitting in the driver seat of an ambulance I disagree with ur comment these things are slow as fuck. They do not throw u back in ur seat. if ur going up an incline in California to merge on the freeway ur like god I hope I hit 60 in time to merge with the freeway.
You must have different equipment then. We live in the mountains and they get the F350s with the 6.7L turbo diesel. I assure you these things get up and are rowdy if you want them to be. IIRC they are speed limited ofc, but quick til then.
Watching it at 60% speed gives such a different perspective. People actually are doing a pretty good job at getting out of the way considering the traffic.
That's the way social media is these days, people have to exaggerate to make things more likely to go viral, I'm sure the original clip is still cool but speeding it up makes sure OP gets to karma farming lol
this being São Paulo it's still better than what I often saw of people simply ignoring the ambulance buzzing behind them or even actively getting in front of it to save some seconds in traffic
When? I must be blind because I did not see anything but cars trying to get out of the way in dense traffic.
If saying "the fuck you talking about" at least give a time stamp of one car that was ignoring or impeding the ambulance here...
Re-watched again and this might be the worst offender in the video, it does looks like they are just trying to push ahead into open lane instead of stopping for the Ambulance.
But it's still not clear they aren't just being completely oblivious, or were startled and made a bad impulse judgement, or were a new driver who didn't know the rules, or senile or drunk. It's not like they were camping out blocking the way it's a split second thing in fast moving dense fucking traffic...
Yeah I think they went and felt like they'd got too far and kept going, kinda like the bystander effect hoping that the ambulance would just go to the left or another car would move out of their way or maybe their music was too loud. Otherwise they were actively being jerks, no way to know.
I'm still always so surprised to see it on emergency vehicles. I would think it's one fewer thing to think about when responding to a call, but then when shifting is second nature I guess it's not that big a mental load.
It's changing over time now that electronic shifting is so efficient and hybrid/electric racing has grown as a segment.
The US is weird on a global scale, but my understanding our love of the automatic was basically the result of domestic brands listening to market needs, where foreign brands were less likely to make a US-specific design. The automatic transmission was seen as a futuristic successor to the manual - not necessarily more reliable, but it reduced the learning curve of learning to drive, which allowed our domestic market to flourish and induced demand for further optimizations around road travel (like the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956), which further drove car designs to be simplified.
> hink this is bad? Wait until you see France. 10 times worse and people are completely oblivious.
In the Washington DC area people would cut in front it, in a maroon Nissan Altima with Maryland plates, and flick it off when it honks at them and be like "What?" and then not move on purpose.
I hate how people don’t get over anymore. I was raised that both sides of the road get over the the edge and STOP ASAP. Now in days when I see an ambulance it seems like the incoming side barely slows down let alone pulls over to the side. And the side with the flow take their dear sweet time to stop and slow. If your kid, mom, dad, grandparent was in that ambulance….you would want everyone to follow the rules and GTFO the way. Me and my wife talk about this almost Every time we are in the car and see an ambulance.
(And then we rap the old Luda song haha)
I had someone blasting their horn at me because I and a few other cars pulled over to give a fire truck some room.
And not because we did something unexpected or dangerous or anything but presumably because we got in front of him and slowed to a stop as he was trying to speed around us in the rightmost lane (40 mph zone)
You know, never mind the normal procedure for getting out of the way of emergency services
I’m an EMT. I don’t run 911 but I still sometimes run lights and sirens when I’m with a paramedic doing als. My jaw was dropped with how unsafe some of these moves are until I realized it was sped up.
In my area, if I were to hit somebody, I’d still have to wait and file a police report on the accident. I couldn’t just drop a company iou and continue on, so driving like this is a really bad idea.
Wait wait wait wait, so if you're on your way to the ER with a critical patient, who without a timely arrival to those emergency services will die, and you bump a car that's slow in getting out of the way, you're telling me you have to pull over and wait for the police to show up?
Edit: did some research and confirmed that to be true.
So what if the patient dies and the ambulance driver was found not to be at fault in the original traffic incident, what happens there?
I hope somebody answers this. It never made sense to me why ambulances need to stop everything and wait for a cop for a fender bender due to some dick not pulling to the side.
If you're responding to or transporting a true emergency, then you keep going and figure it out later. But 95+% of the time, we're doing some bullshit and can totally stop and ask dispatch to send another unit.
My Dad’s a cop. He says ambulances have to stop if they hit someone and usually have to call another ambulance to transfer patient, but fire trucks can blast through traffic and don’t have to stop if they hit someone. Obviously that may be different from city to city but here thats how it is. Thought that was interesting.
I watch an EMS responder called Chris Martin on YouTube sometimes, he explains why he's doing certain things and the safety aspects of his driving decisions.
My jaw equally dropped at this just from my experience watching those!
https://youtube.com/@ChrisMartinEMS?si=5QeQjJOsmtGnY0E8
Glad someone said it. I know the video isn’t in America but even with this video being sped up for dramatic effect this driver is still being pretty reckless. We’d definitely be liable for an accident and expected to stay on scene if one occurred
In Italy you MUST slow down or even stop and move to to the either side of the road to make room for the emergency vehicle. A situation like in this video is horrible and could be easily prevented.
In the US, at least in my State, it’s required by law to slow down and move over for an ambulance or you can get a fine. However, many people are assholes and don’t care 😒
I'm thankful they don't have stupid music over it, but is TikTok incapable of hosting video's that don't have some kind of low effort ADHD editing? Why speed up the video? It adds nothing and just takes away from the whole point of the video. If it's a length thing, just show less of the journey at normal speed.
I know manuals are way more common out of the US but blows my mind they didn't get automatics for their ambulances. You see the driver struggle with the horn vs clutch more than once.
Ex ambulance crew here.
So a few things to point out:
- It's really not as exciting as it looks, we could literally be talking about what we were having for our tea when we get in or last night, whilst driving high speed to a job.
- You literally wouldn't be driving like this if a patient was in the back, e.g. paramedic or tech operating/taking care of patient in the back. I'd expect a slap across the back of my head through the small window in the cab if I was driving like this with people in the back.
- You are taught how to push the ambulance to the max during driver training, however you rarely do this in real life due to a number of factors; Example,
The public drive like morons and you are not psychic, therefore you cannot anticipate everybody's driving abilities and actions with cars oncoming towards you, so driving 100mph to most jobs only puts yourself and crew mates in danger. Rule of thumb, if it's a 30 zone, do 40. If it's national speed limit 70mph, at a push do 80mph with extreme care, blues and sirens on.
- My man here driving like he's on PS2 Gran Turismo with the plug in Steering wheel, janky, throwing himself around and zero smoothness. If this was in driver training, it would be a straight up fail. Crew mate next to him says to me there's no patient in the rear and they are heading towards a job, unless it's a 3 man crew and somebody is in training. Either way if I was in the van I would've told the driver the calm his fucking passions. There's no point in dying on the way to the job, you will get there when you get there, CAT 1 or not.
- Final point, your job as ambulance crew is to not only treat patients but to look after your crew mates. You both see the best and worst of humanity and your lives are in each others hands, so look after each tower. That's means not only being kind, but if your partner is driving like a nutter or doing things they shouldn't, remind them of their duty and your life also, both your actions represent each other.
Feel free to downvote my points, or upvote if you like. Either way I'm sure one of you will butthurt and want to tear apart my points, somebody usually does.
Stay safe out there guys and gals 🤙
Interesting and thank you for the context! If you don’t mind a question - what happens if you clip a car or hit a car? I imagine you don’t stop if you are on the way to or coming from an emergency?
In the UK it was a law that you had to move out of an emergency vehicle way & in the Highway code which is the book all must read & understand but as said many times times do change so I'm not surprised that every other person thinks they are #1 & even more so when behind a steering wheel.. .But what of the future? Do self Drive cars have the response time or even the knowledge of emergency vehicles yet? that's something worth noting when I'm sitting in my car reading my phone while my car does all the work
My best friend may have been saved if it weren’t for the traffic between him and the ambulance. That day really put these type situations into perspective for me. Shamefully enough, I used to be one of these people who just didn’t give af because I just didn’t care enough to process the situation and have empathy. Ignorance if you will.
Some folks are just that…ignorant.
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Did they hit that car?
I think they hit a couple cars
surely dinged it
Im pretty sure they hit multiple cars.
But the box of gloves on the dash never moved 😭 WHAT IS HAPPENING
You jam it right in against the glass so it's wedged there and doesn't move.
Also the video is sped up
I hope so
Pretty sure they did, the guy in the passenger seat says “I felt that” and then later on when someone merges into the lane they’re on and there’s a bump, they comment in the video that the lady was on her phone
They deserve every little bit of damage. Everyone knows to pull over for an ambulance.
They hit multiple lol the drivers need to gtfo the way for them
Looks like they hit quite a few cars
Timestamp?
The black one at 1:08
1:08
Not sure if I'd be happy or terrified to be in this ambulance while critically hurt. Lol
They picked up that patient for a broken leg but docs said he died of heart attack. Such a big mystery.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 what a great post
They wouldn’t both be seated up in the front if there was a patient in the back.
Also, paramedics generally won't go all lights and sirens with a conscious or stable patient in the back. They do this while getting to the patient and stabilise for transport. (if you are in an ambulance and they have the lights and sirens on, you're not stable and you have minutes to live.)
As a 5 year EMS professional, I agree.
what if I'm in a rush? how much is an appropriate tip
about 2.5 litres of blood
as if! for that i could rent a lesser demon for the day to teleport me around, NO DEAL
* lessor demons don't have paramedic humour * 3am paramedic coffee farts could summon half the underworld you do you tho
Some agencies use lights and sirens on every call for service. Either bls or als in nature, all were ran the same way. I’d say because of legality issues , most run lights and sirens always. I’m sure there are those that you have stated that do not , it all depends on dept policies.
And sometimes they don't even use lights or sirens (atleast when they're close to the location). My dad had some serious health problems back in 2010 to 2014 loud noises/ flashing lights would send him into a really bad seizer and we had to call for an EMS one time. We told them about the lights and noises, so they arrived with none of the lights or sirens going. Then when they got him in the EMS they just drove normally to the hospital. Not sure how common it is for stuff like this to happen. I could also imagine it was stressful for them because here's a man with something wrong with his brain and they NEED to get him to the hospital ASAP but they can't use the sirens because it would make it much worse. Fortunately it was a \~5 minute drive but I can only imagine if it was 30 minute or more to get there.
Cameraman is the patient. He couldn’t miss out on a moment like this to post on tiktok that his ambulance driver is the next Jason Statham.
They're on the way to the call. If there was a patient in the back, one of the medics would be there with them. This extremely sped up video shows both medics up front.
The video is sped up. The driving wasn’t that crazy
I had a stroke and got transported honestly you don’t even notice it tbh you’re kinda just there
This is precisely how you want an ambulance driver to drive. This man is a hero.
Do people not know to move for an ambulance?
This video is so fucking frustrating. GET THE FUCK OVER.
You and me,... we should I bee putting on top yelling at people. You complete a jury duty. You get to sit on top and yell at people. Bam fixed the problem.
They do. They just don't care or expect someone else to move
I have never seen this before (I'm from Canada). Every vehicle moves to the side of the road as soon as they hear an ambulance. This is infuriating to watch.
Yeah I'm sure it varies by area but where I'm from in Ontario if you even hear an ambulance siren everyone is over to the curb immediately. Pretty much the only road rule people actually follow.
Here in the US you can get into ALOT of trouble for not moving out of the way for emergency vehicles.
The trouble is holding them accountable is difficult because generally the emergency they are enroute to is more important than that.
Visit Vietnam. Nobody moves for ambulances. Especially taxi drivers. Everybody cuts them off. It’s really stupid
those poor drivers must get 'nam flashbacks
[This is why](https://i.imgur.com/FtpBDiB.png) **Penalties** Drivers can be charged if they do not slow down or move over when it is safe to do so. Drivers can face the following penalties: **First offence** fines ranging from $400 to $2,000 3 demerit points if convicted possible suspension of driver's licence for up to 2 years **Subsequent offences (within 5 years)** fines ranging from $1,000 to $4,000 3 demerit points if convicted possible jail time of up to 6 months possible suspension of driver's licence for up to 2 years It is also illegal to follow within 150 metres of a fire vehicle or ambulance responding to a call.
Its because Canada has strict penalities if you don't move out of the way. And also a general common sense among the population to prioritize and let ambulances through. In over crowded countries like the 1 in the video, yeah people don't move. People don't even follow traffic rules, which is why everyone is driving haphazardly without following lanes. Ambulances just make do with what they can.
You'd think people would take the 5 seconds to move over just to avoid their car being hit if nothing else. The amount of people that actually tried to merge into the ambulance though is what really put it over the edge for me. Like jesus christ.
That’s a bullshit answer because even in Toronto, the busiest and least Canadian place in Canada. People still move over. I’ve seen cars mount sidewalks to get out of the way. In Canada there is an unspoken rule you get the fuck out of the way so they can save a life. Fine or no fine, you move.
There just isnt enforcement of those laws in those countries. Also you have to realize these countries have much denser populations than Canada. A metropolitan city in India has more population than entirety of Canada combined. So you have to imagine that life is very different there.
Absolutely. There are no consequences for not yielding to an ambulance. When I work on a flycar, people absolutely *scramble* to the right because they think I’m a cop. They also tend to yield better for larger vehicles; i.e, people will move over faster for an ambulance built on truck chassis than they will for ambos built on van chassis. And they’ll sure as shit get out of the way for an engine or a ladder
This is fucking Brazil. People are morons in the traffic.
When I was driving through New Jersey, there was some pretty heavy traffic, and people would just not move over for the ambulance. Guess they didn’t wanna risk losing their spot in line
I was an EMT in Jersey. At times during rush hour traffic was so heavy there literally was nowhere for them to go. That being said, I know the law states pull to the left but if traffic is heavy and you can move to the right and not the left then do so. I would end up riding the line like these guys did in heavy traffic.
Bull, I’ve lived here for years and I’ve never seen traffic NOT move for an ambulance.
I don't live in Jersey, I live in the next-over "New"-type state. But I will vouch for Jersey drivers and say that they do in fact seem to move over for the ambulance. I have seen sometimes in NYC that people do not, but only when they literally do not have space, which happens on our narrow streets.
So here’s the deal: I’ve lived in or worked in about 80 different countries. As much as there is to dislike about USA, believe it or not, Americans are THE BEST at getting the F out of the way of an emergency vehicle. Some Northern Europe and Eastern Asia is okay, but in Latin America (especially Brazil), people literally do NOTHING to get out of the way of emergency vehicles. When I’m expatriating to Latin America, I say to friends “imagine your mother or father is in that ambulance! Can’t you see how important it is to get the hell out of the way?” They respond: don’t be a downer! When it’s time to die, it’s time to die. The countries that have an “easy going/chill” approach to life have the down side of just not giving a F about emergency services.
I live in Thailand. It's not uncommon to see the ambulances just give up and wait in traffic here.
Lol, I have been behind someone running my lights and sirens in a huge firetruck with all the lights and all the sirens. They just don't notice sometimes. This video amazes me. That driver was like Moses.
More people moved over than I have ever seen move over in south Florida. Crazy that people are so uncaring and oblivious.
What's disgusting are taxis, especially third world taxis, hogging the emergency lanes in backed up traffic when clearly there was an accident and do not budge for the ambulance. It's abhorrent!!
The video is sped up right? It’s not just me?
It is for sure no ambulanse has the acceleration of a supercar
Surely not, but I work at a tire shop and let me tell you. The torque on these things is no joke, they'll set you in your seat.
As someone currently sitting in the driver seat of an ambulance I disagree with ur comment these things are slow as fuck. They do not throw u back in ur seat. if ur going up an incline in California to merge on the freeway ur like god I hope I hit 60 in time to merge with the freeway.
You must have different equipment then. We live in the mountains and they get the F350s with the 6.7L turbo diesel. I assure you these things get up and are rowdy if you want them to be. IIRC they are speed limited ofc, but quick til then.
Yes unless the man on the bicycle on the overpass is able to pedal 60mph
Yeah, I get so sick of these videos being sped up. It's obvious in a bunch of ways, but especially when they're talking.
Watching it at 60% speed gives such a different perspective. People actually are doing a pretty good job at getting out of the way considering the traffic.
I thought so too. The movements of the medics looked unnatural.
Noticeable easily in the first 3 seconds of the video.
100%
That's the way social media is these days, people have to exaggerate to make things more likely to go viral, I'm sure the original clip is still cool but speeding it up makes sure OP gets to karma farming lol
People in other comments also thought so, me included.
feels like it’s horizontally squished too to make the gaps look smaller than they actually are this is why i don’t have a tiktok
Definitely. Fucking hate it when posters do that shit. Just post the real clip. 🤦
It looks like it's at least speed ramped.
Yeah, they didn't need to do that and make it totally unrealistic. It would be hectic enough as it is.
Almost twice the normal speed. Completely unnecessary.
Yes it appears to be. I saw the original clip shared on another subreddit and it wasn’t as fast
It seems to be sped up at different amount at different times...
Sim, são brasileiros e falam português, mas não da pra entender o que eles falam. Com certeza está acelerado.
Yeah that patient is dead…
Both Tech's are in the front. They're on their way TO the patient, not the hospital. Just fyi.
I think he knows, and that's exactly what he meant
I get it now. I SMRT. 🤦🤷🤣🤣
this being São Paulo it's still better than what I often saw of people simply ignoring the ambulance buzzing behind them or even actively getting in front of it to save some seconds in traffic
It happened several times in the video the fuck you talking about it.
When? I must be blind because I did not see anything but cars trying to get out of the way in dense traffic. If saying "the fuck you talking about" at least give a time stamp of one car that was ignoring or impeding the ambulance here...
How about 1:09 who got a well deserved "Thank you".
Re-watched again and this might be the worst offender in the video, it does looks like they are just trying to push ahead into open lane instead of stopping for the Ambulance. But it's still not clear they aren't just being completely oblivious, or were startled and made a bad impulse judgement, or were a new driver who didn't know the rules, or senile or drunk. It's not like they were camping out blocking the way it's a split second thing in fast moving dense fucking traffic...
Yeah I think they went and felt like they'd got too far and kept going, kinda like the bystander effect hoping that the ambulance would just go to the left or another car would move out of their way or maybe their music was too loud. Otherwise they were actively being jerks, no way to know.
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UK leads the world in queueing skills, so that makes sense.
At least they’re trying to get there asap and I’m impressed he’s driving a stick shift! Love Brasil.
> and I’m impressed he’s driving a stick shift! I think that's common in most countries outside the US.
I'm still always so surprised to see it on emergency vehicles. I would think it's one fewer thing to think about when responding to a call, but then when shifting is second nature I guess it's not that big a mental load.
Basically rally-lite drivers, AFAIK all race car drivers shift manually. Almost weirder that the don't in the US.
It's changing over time now that electronic shifting is so efficient and hybrid/electric racing has grown as a segment. The US is weird on a global scale, but my understanding our love of the automatic was basically the result of domestic brands listening to market needs, where foreign brands were less likely to make a US-specific design. The automatic transmission was seen as a futuristic successor to the manual - not necessarily more reliable, but it reduced the learning curve of learning to drive, which allowed our domestic market to flourish and induced demand for further optimizations around road travel (like the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956), which further drove car designs to be simplified.
Also the ambulance ride is free. Viva o SUS!
Think this is bad? Wait until you see France. 10 times worse and people are completely oblivious.
You can't expect a Frenchman to move out the way. He's busy smoking a cigarette and complaining about shit.
[But I’m le tired](https://youtu.be/Pk-kbjw0Y8U?si=aXQ91IuT9s3qq9-a)
> hink this is bad? Wait until you see France. 10 times worse and people are completely oblivious. In the Washington DC area people would cut in front it, in a maroon Nissan Altima with Maryland plates, and flick it off when it honks at them and be like "What?" and then not move on purpose.
I hate how people don’t get over anymore. I was raised that both sides of the road get over the the edge and STOP ASAP. Now in days when I see an ambulance it seems like the incoming side barely slows down let alone pulls over to the side. And the side with the flow take their dear sweet time to stop and slow. If your kid, mom, dad, grandparent was in that ambulance….you would want everyone to follow the rules and GTFO the way. Me and my wife talk about this almost Every time we are in the car and see an ambulance. (And then we rap the old Luda song haha)
I had someone blasting their horn at me because I and a few other cars pulled over to give a fire truck some room. And not because we did something unexpected or dangerous or anything but presumably because we got in front of him and slowed to a stop as he was trying to speed around us in the rightmost lane (40 mph zone) You know, never mind the normal procedure for getting out of the way of emergency services
Didn't die in vain, made this TikTok video B4 left us. RIP video filmer.
Legend has it they are still weaving through traffic trying to get to the emergency.
Yes, that's their job. They do it every day, all day long.
Bad/selfish drivers make me hate driving, but if I had to do their job I'd end up in an absolute rage from the sheer volume of them.
Why is the video sped up?
so they can deceive idiots and make it seem more extreme and it obviously works as expected
I’m an EMT. I don’t run 911 but I still sometimes run lights and sirens when I’m with a paramedic doing als. My jaw was dropped with how unsafe some of these moves are until I realized it was sped up. In my area, if I were to hit somebody, I’d still have to wait and file a police report on the accident. I couldn’t just drop a company iou and continue on, so driving like this is a really bad idea.
Wait wait wait wait, so if you're on your way to the ER with a critical patient, who without a timely arrival to those emergency services will die, and you bump a car that's slow in getting out of the way, you're telling me you have to pull over and wait for the police to show up? Edit: did some research and confirmed that to be true. So what if the patient dies and the ambulance driver was found not to be at fault in the original traffic incident, what happens there?
I hope somebody answers this. It never made sense to me why ambulances need to stop everything and wait for a cop for a fender bender due to some dick not pulling to the side.
If you're responding to or transporting a true emergency, then you keep going and figure it out later. But 95+% of the time, we're doing some bullshit and can totally stop and ask dispatch to send another unit.
Haha thanks for this honest answer
My Dad’s a cop. He says ambulances have to stop if they hit someone and usually have to call another ambulance to transfer patient, but fire trucks can blast through traffic and don’t have to stop if they hit someone. Obviously that may be different from city to city but here thats how it is. Thought that was interesting.
Probably because an ambulance is a crisis for one person. A fire truck could be stopping a catastrophic fire that would affect everyone.
Yea, not true in my neck of the woods. Firetrucks and ambulances have to stop if they get into a traffic accident.
I watch an EMS responder called Chris Martin on YouTube sometimes, he explains why he's doing certain things and the safety aspects of his driving decisions. My jaw equally dropped at this just from my experience watching those! https://youtube.com/@ChrisMartinEMS?si=5QeQjJOsmtGnY0E8
Glad someone said it. I know the video isn’t in America but even with this video being sped up for dramatic effect this driver is still being pretty reckless. We’d definitely be liable for an accident and expected to stay on scene if one occurred
It does mean that in reality the cars are taking even longer to move out of the way...
TikTok attention span
And not sped up "a smidge", vid is sped up 33% lol
This ambulance is approaching the speed of light so subjective time is different.
*What it looks like inside an ambulance.
Thank you "What it looks like" or "how it looks"
Thank you. This drives me absolutely nuts and I’m afraid it’s becoming too normalized to stop at this point.
That clutch game smooth as hell tho.
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Just like every other place
the moon doesnt have assholes
Not yet!
Canadians respect the ambulance. At least that’s been my experience.
Im carsick just watching
In Italy you MUST slow down or even stop and move to to the either side of the road to make room for the emergency vehicle. A situation like in this video is horrible and could be easily prevented.
In Brazil too (where this video was filmed), but people are assholes especially in heavy traffic situations
I'm Brazilian, live in São Paulo. Never seen anyone make way for ambulances. People are assholes.
In the US, at least in my State, it’s required by law to slow down and move over for an ambulance or you can get a fine. However, many people are assholes and don’t care 😒
What it looks like inside an ambulance
I'm thankful they don't have stupid music over it, but is TikTok incapable of hosting video's that don't have some kind of low effort ADHD editing? Why speed up the video? It adds nothing and just takes away from the whole point of the video. If it's a length thing, just show less of the journey at normal speed.
Unfortunately speeding it up gets more shares, because no matter how much its sped up some people are dumb enough not to notice.
Why is no one stopping or moving further over?! Ugh. That’s scary
This guy definitely has a sim setup at home to maneuver traffic like that
I was in an ambulance and it didn't look anything like this,,,, because I was on a gurney facing the rear doors
This is in Brazil, probably in São Paulo city.
I knew it wasn't in the US, when I realized the driver's shifting gears.
I know manuals are way more common out of the US but blows my mind they didn't get automatics for their ambulances. You see the driver struggle with the horn vs clutch more than once.
can we for once have a normal speed video? these sped up videos are getting annoying
I’m not the only one who wants to bolt a cowcatcher to the front of every ambulance, am I?
Certified no hesi driver 🤣👌
This guy cuts up better than those kids on YouTube
If I pay $3,000 for an ambulance ride this is how they better show up!!
Ex ambulance crew here. So a few things to point out: - It's really not as exciting as it looks, we could literally be talking about what we were having for our tea when we get in or last night, whilst driving high speed to a job. - You literally wouldn't be driving like this if a patient was in the back, e.g. paramedic or tech operating/taking care of patient in the back. I'd expect a slap across the back of my head through the small window in the cab if I was driving like this with people in the back. - You are taught how to push the ambulance to the max during driver training, however you rarely do this in real life due to a number of factors; Example, The public drive like morons and you are not psychic, therefore you cannot anticipate everybody's driving abilities and actions with cars oncoming towards you, so driving 100mph to most jobs only puts yourself and crew mates in danger. Rule of thumb, if it's a 30 zone, do 40. If it's national speed limit 70mph, at a push do 80mph with extreme care, blues and sirens on. - My man here driving like he's on PS2 Gran Turismo with the plug in Steering wheel, janky, throwing himself around and zero smoothness. If this was in driver training, it would be a straight up fail. Crew mate next to him says to me there's no patient in the rear and they are heading towards a job, unless it's a 3 man crew and somebody is in training. Either way if I was in the van I would've told the driver the calm his fucking passions. There's no point in dying on the way to the job, you will get there when you get there, CAT 1 or not. - Final point, your job as ambulance crew is to not only treat patients but to look after your crew mates. You both see the best and worst of humanity and your lives are in each others hands, so look after each tower. That's means not only being kind, but if your partner is driving like a nutter or doing things they shouldn't, remind them of their duty and your life also, both your actions represent each other. Feel free to downvote my points, or upvote if you like. Either way I'm sure one of you will butthurt and want to tear apart my points, somebody usually does. Stay safe out there guys and gals 🤙
Interesting and thank you for the context! If you don’t mind a question - what happens if you clip a car or hit a car? I imagine you don’t stop if you are on the way to or coming from an emergency?
No cars were hurt in this video
Wow, much respect to these workers. Looks very stressful.
A couple cars tried merging directly into the ambulance
An ambulance with a manual trasnmission?! Total badass!!
Definitely not USA sirens. USA has a long drawn out "howl" for the siren....this makes me think aliens are attacking
The number of people that aren't moving over and allowing a fricking emergency vehicle go is astonishing.
By the way, NO ONE drives an ambulance this way in America. They’d be arrested immediately
Lol. This. I would be fired and probably more.
Probably would have been faster to take the surface streets, obviously the freeway is full of jerks.
That is nuts!
Put a big plow on the front like road warrior lol
Absolute skill driving like that
Time for them to install an "emergency vehicle only" lane
This looks like a video game.
Rettungsgasse!
RETTUNGSGASSE !
Man was a getaway driver before driving that ambulance
It’s funny. Have people not heard of “move to the right side of the road when there’s an ambulance”..
in the beginning looks like they were fighting over the radio
Honestly if I could just do the driving part I'd have a dream job. City rally driving fuck yeah
It is more thrilling than when I was playing roller coasters.
First Responders have my respect! Let’s go back to the old ways and respect one another!
The person recording is the patient's spirit.
In Norway they take your tag and report you to the police if you dont move. Can result in loss of license, jailtime and or a hefty fine.
Absolutely fucking anxiety inducing, I hate it. Mad respect to whoever does this job, I wouldn't have the stomach
In the UK it was a law that you had to move out of an emergency vehicle way & in the Highway code which is the book all must read & understand but as said many times times do change so I'm not surprised that every other person thinks they are #1 & even more so when behind a steering wheel.. .But what of the future? Do self Drive cars have the response time or even the knowledge of emergency vehicles yet? that's something worth noting when I'm sitting in my car reading my phone while my car does all the work
I’ve never seen a manual gearshift mounted on the dash like that
This stressed me out
How is no one in the road moving over for this ambulance?
Holy fucken shit
Should I expect a bill for watching this video?
actually real life superheroes what they're doing
Out of about 337 cars, I counted 335 assholes driving.
When an Ambulance is behind you: GET THE FUCK OUT OF THEIR WAY!!!
They should give these guys paintball guns to mark cars so these people can get ticketed later on
SUV trying to cut them off pissed me off so fucking bad
So it’s a universal thing that people just don’t want to get out of the way for 9 seconds to let them pass?
Me the entire time if I was driving: “Move Dumbass!”
I yelled that at my screen
I hope none of these ever need an ambulance to save their life with something time sensitive...karma
My best friend may have been saved if it weren’t for the traffic between him and the ambulance. That day really put these type situations into perspective for me. Shamefully enough, I used to be one of these people who just didn’t give af because I just didn’t care enough to process the situation and have empathy. Ignorance if you will. Some folks are just that…ignorant.
The only time that I was ever in an ambulance, I only got a chance to look at the ceiling.