JG-103 wrote: If my brother's mate rang me up and told me he had been drivin behind my brother's car when all of a sudden he crashed, then turned on the scanner to here a cop prenounce he is dead, it can be really traumatic.
Seems to me you have your priorities all wrong. If someone phoned me and told me a family member had been in a crash the last thing I would be doing is turning on the scanner. I would be saying "where is it" and then get my butt down there...........
Most of the time anyway SJA get there before the police... I don't really think its that big of an issue for people to actually whinge about... Again if you don't like it then turn it off....
JG-103 wrote:I understand where everyone is coming from but i believe that unless that it is beyond resonible doubt that the person is dead, ie decapitated or squished into a square by the crash, (touch wood nobody will come across such an accident) they should say, we hav 1 very critical, that way vki can then inform SAJ that they have a priority 1 MVA. If my brother's mate rang me up and told me he had been drivin behind my brother's car when all of a sudden he crashed, then turned on the scanner to here a cop prenounce he is dead, it can be really traumatic. Dont get me wrong, the police do a great job, bout 4 weeks ago there was a crash outside my house and the police were there in no time and handled everything well.
SJA attend ANY MVA priortiy 1. Regardless of Injuries.
Firstly im not whinging about anything, secondly nearly all the MVA's iv listened to, the police hav got there first and thirdly, of coarse im going to ask where it happened and then drive down there to see him, geez, but whilst im drivin ill be listening to it on the scanner and if they prenounced my brother dead when he's not then something is wrong!
Az, they didnt when it was outside my house, the guy had split is bottom in two, he could pull half his bottom lip up and the other half down and i can tell you for sure that SJA did not go priority 1, All they had was their lights and they didnt arrive until 20 mins after the crash, despite my next door neighbour tellin the cops when she rang in the crash that he was injured.
cockburn attends to prangs in kwinnies because there the kwinana ambo ... well this may all seem confusing but cockburn 3 is the kwinana truck now there stationed at cockburn because kwinanas station is being rebuilt ... so after all that long winded afair ... cockburn 3 is a kwinana truck
There are times when the ambos specifically want to drive slowly, generally in the case of spinal injuries where the patient needs to be moved as little as possible - just the slightest movement can worsen an injury and ptentially cause paralysis. Taking bends at 100kmh and driving over median strips is not what you want to be doing in these situations.
One of the more interesting police calls I've heard was in Melbourne in about 1990. The cops had been asked by the ambulance service to provide a police escort for an ambulance travelling to hospital - nothing new in that, the paramedics wanted a clear run - but in this case they specifically asked that they travel all the way at about 50 or 60kmh, without stopping, slowing down or speeding up. That of course meant the police had to 'leapfrog' the ambulance to stop traffic at every intersection along the way.
JG-103 wrote: 
