Road crash

AckwelFoley

Just goin into dublin 1k from the lexlip exit. I look in rear mirror and see a car veer from the fast lane across the inside lane into the trees. It
rolled twice. I went bk, there were 2 in the car. Then 6 ppl stopped, the screams of the guy is some thing i wont forget ever. The others tried to open the car, i told them they must stop and wait for the ambulance to arrive

3 ambulances, a fire brigade and some 40 min later they are taken away. They seem ok. Thank god.

slow down ppl

mcauley

After hours? Really??

6th

Snyper is confined to AH.

m@cc@

mcauley wrote: »

After hours? Really??

There's a thread on a 'hot gym instructor' and this is the one that grabs your attention?

Wibbs

A mate of mine who has paramedic training and came across a crash late one night involving two cars, saved a few lives with bravery, quick thinking and training. I asked him how did he know which car to go for first and he said the quiet one. Screamers may be injured but they're alive and conscious. Never thought of it like that. I would have instinctively gone for the screamers.

Wibbs

Your ma, your ma and my cock. sorted

m@cc@

Atari Jaguar! FAIL!

mcauley

Wibbs wrote: »

. . .Never thought of it like that. I would have instinctively gone for the screamers

Nah I wont actually.... too easy

Caoimhín

snyper wrote: »

some 40 min later they are taken away. They seem ok. Thank god.

You left Maddie in the boot for 40 mins?

antodeco

Talking about slowing down, I saw this movie about a bus that had to SPEED around a city, keeping its SPEED over fifty, and if its SPEED dropped, it would explode! I think it was called "The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Did you record his speed somehow or is that just speculation? Maybe he was off his face on acid, or another passanger was filating him, maybe he fell asleep at the weel or maybe he just doesn't know how to drive?

More than one way to skin a cat.

antodeco

antodeco wrote: »

Talking about slowing down, I saw this movie about a bus that had to SPEED around a city, keeping its SPEED over fifty, and if its SPEED dropped, it would explode! I think it was called "The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down

are you sure that was about a bus, I thought it was a milk float?

Clare Bear

I do a lot of driving from Dublin to Cork, have seen a few pretty bad crashes in my time. It's a horrible thing to witness. Thank God each one I saw there weren't any fatalities but it scares the shit out of you, not in the better of it for a long time after. Glad they seemed okay Snyper.

Dec McC

snyper wrote: »

Just goin into dublin 1k from the lexlip exit. I look in rear mirror and see a car veer from the fast lane across the inside lane into the trees. It
rolled twice. I went bk, there were 2 in the car. Then 6 ppl stopped, the screams of the guy is some thing i wont forget ever. The others tried to open the car, i told them they must stop and wait for the ambulance to arrive

3 ambulances, a fire brigade and some 40 min later they are taken away.

When do we get the punchline?

J.S. Pill

If there is a moral to the story it it this:

Never ever drink and drive

timmywex

snyper wrote: »

Just goin into dublin 1k from the lexlip exit. I look in rear mirror and see a car veer from the fast lane across the inside lane into the trees. It
rolled twice. I went bk, there were 2 in the car. Then 6 ppl stopped, the screams of the guy is some thing i wont forget ever. The others tried to open the car, i told them they must stop and wait for the ambulance to arrive

3 ambulances, a fire brigade and some 40 min later they are taken away. They seem ok. Thank god.

slow down ppl

Now you know what the ambulance/fire service deal with every day, and the gardai.

The quiet people are the people to go to at any incident, the screamers are only in pain, its urgent however!

CreepingDeath

snyper wrote: »

Just goin into dublin 1k from the lexlip exit. I look in rear mirror and see a car veer from the fast lane across the inside lane into the trees.

Did you lose your trailer / caravan a few seconds before it ?

sdanseo

Saw a guy get hit by a bus in the rearview last week in Santry. Corner of the bus, maybe the mirror, clipped him in the shoulder and floored him. Almost crashed the car in shock, but he got up - made sure he looked OK and this was well behind me (~300m) so I carried on. Unnerving though. We're talking inches or his head would have gone through the window.

Snype's right - slow it down. Hopefully it hasn't shocked the black humour out of him

Ghost Train

down with this sort of thing?

ronnie3585

Careful now.

Berty

Im trained in tactial driving by the Eastern health board as a qualified ambulance/emergency vehicle driver.

I arrived on an accident and my GF kept telling me to help because I was an ambulance driver.

I must stress there is a difference. There can be paramedics, medical technicians and ambulance drivers, nurses, doctors all travelling in an emergency ambulance. You never really know what is going to turn up unless you specify when you ring up 999/112. Odd as that may seem.

So, if you know the person had a heart attack you can specify a defib vehicle or you may just get a standard emergency ambulance and a doctor has to be called to the scene by the guys who arrived first which means more delay.

Needless to say there was not much I could do in the incident other than provide intermediate first aid.

I am allowed by my license to put a blue/red light in my cars front and rear windows and a siren. My boss will not allow me because my insurance will nearly quadruple.

If you really want a red/blue light for yourself legally you can become a volunteer fireman and you are allowed legally to drive with them so long as you are heading to the firestation on call.....................yeah like you wouldnt take the piss !

eyresquare

quirke_folder wrote: »

Im trained in tactial driving by the Eastern health board as a qualified ambulance/emergency vehicle driver.

I arrived on an accident and my GF kept telling me to help because I was an ambulance driver.

I must stress there is a difference. There can be paramedics, medical technicians and ambulance drivers, nurses, doctors all travelling in an emergency ambulance. You never really know what is going to turn up unless you specify when you ring up 999/112. Odd as that may seem.

So, if you know the person had a heart attack you can specify a defib vehicle or you may just get a standard emergency ambulance and a doctor has to be called to the scene by the guys who arrived first which means more delay.

Needless to say there was not much I could do in the incident other than provide intermediate first aid.

I am allowed by my license to put a blue/red light in my cars front and rear windows and a siren. My boss will not allow me because my insurance will nearly quadruple.

If you really want a red/blue light for yourself legally you can become a volunteer fireman and you are allowed legally to drive with them so long as you are heading to the firestation on call.....................yeah like you wouldnt take the piss !

wow

ejmaztec

The moral of the story is that, when driving behind someone, you must not get distracted when the person in front hangs his lad out of the driver's window to take a leak because he's in too much of a hurry to stop at the nearest toilet.