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My thoughts exactly, well said. 😊

I have to be honest and admit that after a beer or two one night I actually got quite emotional watching one of Chris's video's and thinking exactly the same thing!

Anyone can be trained to drive like this.

@@juliandavies1974 I would contend that the majority wouldn't pass the assessments.

@@juliandavies1974 let me guess, you're an ace at GTA and always set a fastest lap time on F1 simulators. The real world is different.

Who knows. Maybe it's HDR?

It's down to YTs compression issues.

Maybe from the heat. It will get better once weather temps go down

@@Luki-jz6gm Nope, YT's player just hates it.

definitely an artefact of the high texture foliage going past on each side. Compression doesn't know how to handle elements like that . The tom scott video on confetti explains it very well

It's scandalous that there needs to be a volunteer run charity to fill gaps in healthcare. Most air ambulances are charities, most mountain rescue groups, all lifeboats. These should all be government funded agencies. Hats off to the volunteers across our nation.

Most of the UK has critical care, they are basically the road versions of the air ambulance

@@graememckay9972I don’t think they want government funding. They are successful as a standalone entity.

@@graememckay9972 the issue there in lies the fact we need to encourage more people into those jobs within the healthcare system which people dont want to do be it because certain genders are berated and treated like crap because of the role they have gone into, or in general everyone within the healthcare system or All of our emergency services are treated like rubbish, and the gov would argue they'd need to increase taxes to account for it all rather than putting a stop to all the money being leached out of the tax pot by people working in government :/ - also the gov want the NHS to fail because they make money of private healthcare as share holders (which should be illegal but whos gonna stop the government)

You mean these guys in the video aren’t paid?

fair, but also that van driver may have seen it was clear in the middle lane and they were turning right, if they had put a right indicator on it would of helped to say go down the middle to the police car. the van is also at the 3rd marker board to the roundabout, so is in their braking zone to stop safely for the roundabout, doesnt know if the lorry has started braking yet and if it was me, i would not want to pull in front of the lorry and get rear ended. some people panic when they have emergency vehicles behind them. the van could of done better but overall didnt impede the flow of the police car too much.

@@douglasreid699 in that case an intent driver would have moved to the right as much as possible. But that van driver didn't. They instead hugged the left edge of the lane.

@@Jehty_ i would put that down to panic and lack of confidence and planning. they feel urged to move to the left lane to let the police car by, but they are 300yards from the junction and want to stay in the right the current lane to go where they are going. it can be rare for some drivers to come across emergency service vehicles behind them so they are not practiced at dealing with them. how much decision making can you make in 100yards? because that is pretty much the space they had to make their decision (without me looking up the video to check exactly what space they had with the marker boards and rewriting this comment). some people are good at it, some are not. end result was the police car got held up a few seconds but its something they expect to happen and train for as professional drivers.

@@douglasreid699 Van drivers are the worst at mirror checking for response vehicles, i've seen hundreds driving for minutes on Motorways without checking their mirrors....

@@tmister007 yes there are a few out there that do hold up emergency vehicles, but i also seen loads of van drivers that are on it and get out the way in good time.

I thought that was noteworthy too. Good obs & anticipation by the driver.

Cruise control and on the phone.

There was some really good actions taken by a lot of the public in this video. I think the phrase "blind as a British van driver" should be a thing if it isn't.

​@@gwaeron8630There were a few actions by some drivers in this video which I'd put in the 50/50 bracket, one which stuck out to me was the driver at around 5:10 who doesn't think to slow down more (or stop) between the middle islands. The video before this one though had quite a lot of odd decisions by some drivers, I think the very first driver in that one tried to stop opposite a LGV which was quite curious.

@@InstaSim6 if we are talking about odd decision: 4:48 coming to a stop in the middle of the road on the Island. Haven't seen that one before.

A sizeable portion of the general population have below average IQ, emergency services know this and prepare accordingly.

Go back into some previous videos if you haven't seen them as Chris has previously shown speed. Would love to see it return! 👍

I agree, but the telemetry is not always strictly accurate. I would assume they are doing about 90mph on the fast run.

They were going crazy fast on the country road at the beginning and on the road at the end. In fact, I’d say a bit too fast on the country road, even for an emergency vehicle, as there were some blind bends where if there was an oncoming vehicle it could have been a head on collision. They maybe could’ve gone a bit quicker on the motorway sections though. Just my thoughts.

Think it might be a Volvo v60 t8, 0-60 around 4 seconds, nippy for sure, looking at buying one actually lol, unless its a D4, then bit slower than that.

Yeah it's a V60

@@JasonTheOneAndOnly didnt know you could get a T8? i know Volvo do a T5 as their high spec engine, my brother has a Volvo V90 with T5 engine in it, 2019 model of car. its a fun car when joining motorways.

@@douglasreid699 seems so, there s few on autotrader I been looking at, unless it's a listing error but I cant choose between that and a Audi S4 Avant tbh

​@@JasonTheOneAndOnlyhis is a Volvo B6, 300hp and 0-60 in around 6 seconds

I keep having this argument with Americans on Instagram 😅 US police, like the California Highway Patrol for instance, definitely LOOK cool (though some liveries are awful) but emergency work isn't a fashion show, it should be about safety and visibility, which our UK vehicles have. CHP have black cars, minimal lighting, and no reflective decals and they work on California highways at night where rear-hits are notorious... Makes no sense!

As a UK resident I actually find it odd more nations don't have emergency services with high visibility paintwork - surely you want them to be highly visible to work with the sirens and make sure to those that do pay attention in the road know exactly what vehicle to make way for? All in all I have the opposite thought - if it isn't high vis, doesn't seem very serious imo.

Don't know if you're from the US but the range of different police liveries over there seems very confusing, and the sort of thing that makes it easier for Jeremy Dewitte types to mess with people.

@@AlexSwanson-rw7cv - had to give you a thumbs up just for the Jeremy Dewitte reference - I watched a load of videos of him and his goons pretending to be police and gosh those funeral escorts - yikes! Wonder what they're up to these days...

The high-vis decales are called Batternburg markings. The UK invented them for emergency vehicles in the 1990s. Since then, many other European nations have adopted them, along with Australia and New Zealand. They serve a very important and useful purpose. They make the vehicles instantly nationally recognisable as emergency vehicles, and both when they're moving and stopped, make the vehicles extremely visible from long distances in all conditions, including pitch black night, snow and fog. A major efficiency and safety advantage.

This is for additional doctor or advanced paramedic support. If it were a cat 1 life threatening then the majority of the time there is a crew on scene in under 8 minutes. The specialists take longer to arrive as there is less of them floating about.

Only American are so obnoxious that they use horns everywhere. And red lights are useless.

Battenburg, surely?

Both the same car

@@lewisconnell1234 It doesn’t look the same car to me, I think it’s a Skoda. I stand corrected tho 👍 thanks for the reply

I suspect the rozzer noticed Chris fell behind and slowed down for him

No he had an unmarked VRS in his last job, in this role he uses the marked Skoda Octavia Scout I think, he went through it in one of his videos.

@@lewisconnell1234 Not the same car, police car is a Volvo V60 and Chris is driving either a Fabia or an Octavia

The US has the added bonus of the only legal reaction being to come to a complete stop. Totally unworkable here, but some will argue for the overpowering superiority of having no freedom (ironic, isn't it?).

Don’t know about this run/Critical Care Medics, but to give you an example from Police perspective- it’s not unheard of for our Dept to do 45 to 50 minute runs on Blues - and averaging 115 to 120mph over that whole run.

The UK has run out of most parts of the health system, paramedics included.

@@Secretlyanothername Indeed.

it will be down to different styles and who the drivers instructor was. although the core of the advanced driving is the same, the police will train their drivers differently to other emergency service drivers. from what i could see in places and what i know thanks to my dad who was an advanced driving instructor, the police car was playing more an escort role. coming off the motorway and up the hill to the red light around 7:30 the police car is making a gap and Chris is not following it to get more vision of road ahead. he stays left of the police car and behind it in case its gets hit side on from a vehicle thats not stopped for them as they go through the red light as an example. there are advantages and disadvantages to blue light runs in convoy, most vehicles have already got out the way for the first car, a police car gets more respect from road users i feel, but the danger is most drivers are not expecting the second vehicle right behind it, so Chris needs position himself slightly different to allow better vision where he can.

Throwing this out there... The police driver may not be as highly qualified as Chris! They may only be low power response qualified. Whereas Chris's car certainly falls into the high power category. As has been said, how and who trained can make a difference, even with the new "standardised" requirements for response driving. I would teach people to do some things differently to Chris or the lead car. Then differently still if not in convoy.

@@stevesmith7530 what is the difference between low power and high power? Is it to do with car performance? Because that police car took off and i would say it was a far more powerful car than the vehicle Chris is driving. Having driven my brothers volvo v90 t5 2019 model, those volvos can shift.

​@stevesmith7530 that's a traffic cop, do not get any high trained.

Their meant to be in different road positions to one another.

In reality I think it would be cheaper to buy additional cars than additional people, people are unfortunately the most costly aspect of any service, so getting a taxi or changing car on the odd occasion would be more cost effective It's not too often that they have to abandon their car, and sometimes they can trade places so one of the ambulance crew can drive it for them if they absolutely have to be with the patient for the journey to hospital

For the air ambulance cars, you normally have at least 2 clinicians, and therefore one from the ambulance will drive the car, and one drives the ambulance whilst the AA travel in the back. But this is a charity/volunteer role that Chris does in his free time

Here in my part of Australia our critical care paramedics usually drive SUVs alone, except if they have a student CCP on placement who is still an Advanced Care paramedic. When they back us up and need to travel in the ambulance, a crew member from the stretcher unit will drive the SUV and follow to hospital. Occasionally when you need two doing patient care, the SUV is left on scene and picked up later. But that's becoming less frequent. We used to have our CCPs working in pairs all the time. That way you still have a vehicle that can respond to close by urgent jobs if needed until a stretcher crew arrive. Except in rural and remote areas, you can't legally drive or work in an emergency ambulance unless you're a career paramedic, so there goes the utilisation of volunteers.

You weren't the van driver were you? ;-)

No I drive on the correct side of the road, I was merely referring to the viewer PoV 🙊@@will_doherty

@@Anriandor I wasn't being serious 🙂

The really worrying thing is there are countless drivers on our roads with that total lack of awareness.

Yes, but Chris kept up despite getting out to run around the car in the beginning :-)

LOL, looks like it but it's actually a little car park.

Hi and sorry to hear that. Please check out the follow up version of this video which I think has resolved the frame rate and mbs problem. Please let me know if it's better. And any opinion on gimbal vs fixed view.

Sue Ryder home so probably a patient problem.

@@andyalder7910 ah I see! Hope it was nothing too serious with the police having to attend!