Night run 2 - how to help 

I love watching the speed cameras give you their fanfare as you progress through.

0:43 another great tip (from the great Robin of Ambuchannel) is to signal right and go around the roundabout in a full loop, to let the EMS vehicle through, and then exit in the direction you were going to anyway.

I’m in awe with everyone’s driving in reaction to the lights and sirens nearly everyone acted perfectly

I feel like watching these videos should be made mandatory when learning to drive! It would make drivers a lot more aware of how to assist blue light drivers and would ultimately make emergency driving safer and more efficient. Certainly from my standpoint, as someone who will soon be learning, I have learnt a lot about what is safest and most effective to allow a vehicle to pass when on blue lights. Thanks for the videos Chris, keep them coming!

Great to see your "safety bubble" - reminds me of what I've been taught before: lines on the road are just paint, use the full road to the extent needed to drive safely

5:12 Just shows how the driver pulling out should still look both ways. A few seconds difference in overtaking etc could have ended badly

I wish I knew why videos like this made me cry. Something about the inherent kindness of people in seeing an emergency vehicle and knowing to get out of the way because somebody's in serious danger, even if it's not always done in the most helpful manner.

Brilliant video - thanks for showing. I certainly never realised that killing the sirens implied that you should keep trying to make progress until you can provide the emergency vehicle driver with a safer overtake opportunity.

Interesting point you made on sirens. I didn't know that by switching off sirens you are happy for cars to continue as is at that point. Am I correct in that. Must admit I would have probably tried to move over also.

It said on my driving license to "tear down the dotted line" as well dude, apparently not what was meant!! Be safe brother, excellent to see examples of good driver responses to emergency vehicles 👍🏻👍🏻

Great video. Really appreciate these. I must say I'd probably have attempted to pull-over seeing any blue lights in my rear view without sirens, but now I realise you would rather people keep moving. They should show videos like this to learners. Very useful.

How fast was the speeding ticket for 8:00 😂😉

Speed camera got you there! 😉 I must remember to signal as I didn’t realise it was useful to you. usually I get right over safely and I drive a van 99% of the time! Very informative video

I feel that this should be a whole part of the driving test is what to do when this happens they need more emphasis on it

That driver at 05:14 on the right never even saw you. Always amazes me, the blue lights can't get much brighter

As a HGV driver I need more space and time to get out of the way . I've seen the approaching Emergency vehicle and found cars passing me to take the space I was indicating to use then stopping dead in front of me causing me to be an obstacle . A shake of the head from the ambulance driver said it all . Was good to see most drivers took a positive response to aid your progress

These are great videos to watch and very informative. I must admit, I do get very nervous when I hear or see emergency vehicles as I don’t want to impede their progress. Lots of great tips to keep in mind whilst on the road. Keep up the good work.

Glad to see that most of us are helping you with road space as much as we can..

Absolutely loved the commentary and talk through of what you’re doing and why. So helpful to explain to civilians. Well done

Really insightful video Chris, I like the notes throughout the driving that explains the processes.

Very Informative and entertaining video, thanks Chris. Please continue with this style of vids!

Great video Chris! love the insight from a blue light trained driver

Chris man!!!!! I think you're my brother from another mother. Total calm and skill 100% Thanks for your service to mankind 🙏🙏🙏🙏 Be safe be well, love from Dublin 👍♥️🇨🇮👍♥️🇨🇮👍♥️🇨🇮👍♥️🇨🇮👍

All of these examples should be though in all driving schools. Thank you and great video!

I remember a few weeks after I passed my driving test, I stopped on a blind bend to let an ambulance past. It still makes me cringe thinking about it! Now I try to be hyper aware, I love when you get a thank you beep after spotting an emergency vehicle very far back and can plan how and where to stop/let it last! :)

I really love your vids! I'm looking for getting a job in my country (Argentina) as a highway safety truck driver. And this kind of videos are very very helpful! Thanks!! :)

thanks for posting this, super helpful as a driver to see from the other side

As a driver and prospective paramedic these videos are doubly helpful, one I know how to react when and emergency vehicle is coming and 2 what I'll have to deal with while driving under blue lights.

Learning so much from these videos! Thanks

This is so useful, this situational awareness around emergency vehicles should be part of the theory, or even just “you must watch these videos” before you get a licence, and every 10 years after.

Very interesting to see you highlighting the good and bad - I think I'm pretty good when I see blue lights, always glad to improve my driving.

This is very informative and will hopefully make us normal drivers behave even better when emergency vehicles are approaching. It can save time and possible lives.

Thanks for this. I live on what might be called an Ambulance Alley as a main route into town and to the local A&E and it's good to get a look at best practice from the point of view of the ESV driver.

Excellent video Chris, very informative! 😀

Amazing insight to the people behind the blue lights. Learnt a lot! They should teach these tips on driving lessons, hopefully could help someone one day!

Back in the 1970s I took the Advance Drivers course and having a police driving instructor as my tutor, he made me very aware of what I should do to aid an emergency vehicle on it's way. You highlighted them in your video, but what I am finding is a lot of emergency drivers are not signalling their intentions at junction's, roundabouts etc. So I just signal and slow or stop to the nearside. Had the vehicle signalled I could have been better prepared and made a different choice. The police are the worst culprits by the way. I would like to thank all you guys and gals for the fantastic job you all do. Stay safe.

Always enjoyed Ambuchannel with Robin, loved the Dutch scenery and generally how responsive the Dutch drivers were to the emergency vehicle.

7:59 you went past me at the turn to my drive i cant believe i just randomly came across this video wow lmao, really good driving by the way!

Excellent video. This should be part of driving licence test - hazard perception and how to respond appropriately to emergency vehicles

The unawareness of some drivers just astonishes me

🚑 This video should be part of the theory test/hazard awareness, nobody is taught how to react when emergency services are closing in, I know its just common sense at the end of the day but many thanks.. was more than extremely helpful. 😉👍

Looking forward to the video on the safety bubble!

Love the dual carriageway straddle, something I've been taught to pass the advanced motoring test. Not many people know what I'm on about when I tell them about it 😄

Super informative. This should be shown in place of adverts on UK RU-vid videos. Needs a wider audience!

Love to see your videos! Keep it up!

I love these blue light runs

I was taught to cancel the blues as well as the twos when you don't want vehicles to react especially on bends or in situations where you don't want someone to stop or push through lights or junctions, regardless to cancelling sirens the vehicles in front will still react the same way with just your lights on where as turning everything off indicates to them you're no longer trying to get round them and most likely they'll continue then when its safe back on 360 blues, maybe its different all around the country as i have noticed a few drivers cancel sirens but leave lights on and the vehicles still react the same so i always used to cancel everything in a situation where my presence would cause a dangerous/non ideal situation to occur, really good response run though you made progress well and i'm glad you change the sirens as often as you do as it drives me mad when you see a responder just keeping wail on the entire drive...different tones for a reason! you should get them to add you a Hi-Lo siren it works wonders, lovely response vehicles you have now they're much better than the zafira's lol.

As a late new ish driver, these video's are really helping me understand what's important in these situations. Thanks. And great driving :)

Brilliant stuff Chris. This should be mandatory viewing for learner drivers. Interesting to get indications of your speed too.

Fantastic video, thank you.

i really enjoy these.

Great spacial awareness from many drivers - wish they would show similar attributes in the Sainsburys car park, maybe it's a Honda Jazz thing!

One time I saw an ambulance in my rear view mirror (in the middle of a sunny day I might add), just as I went over the hill. It was a good 3/4 of a mile away, and the fact there were lights at the bottom of the hill that were red, I decided to just stick to the left knowing it'll be wanting to come past soon. It's amazing how long it took people to react to it coming, some even oblivious until it had gotten within 30ft. Use your damn mirrors people.

Some of what you show others doing is basic common sense but its still nice to see some people in the UK still have it

Thanks for sharing these, I find them really interesting. The long left bend I think shows us what many, including myself, can be guilty of, and that’s the mentality of “blue lights, I must move over”. Now I feel much more aware of my surroundings and how the emergency vehicle can progress. If sirens off, I’ll keep going until safe to pull in or sirens back on.

Great comments, very helpful! I have used lessons learned to respond better to emergency vehicles.

Thank you, this was really helpful!

Really enjoying this channel. Reminds me of another German channel with an ambulance driver, it was very useful for learning purposes but was unfortunately taken down (due to privacy concerns I believe). Appreciate what you do, and please keep posting videos 👍

I now have a new bucket list item, to get a happy double chirp from a running police car

I can't believe that there are actually that many people using their signal.

Chris, really nice video!

I have been driving for nearly 30 years now and this is teaching me still. How to react to emergency vehicles was never part of my driving lessons may be it should be.

5:10 a good example of why you be cautious around people at junctions… ‘turning left without looking left’ as my driving instructor said

It is interesting to see just how close you get to some cars before they seem to notice you or decide to take action...here (US) where I live now if you see can emergency vehicle coming everyone pulls right over and stops on both sides of the road so they can go through the middle and we do it as early as safe to do so.

Came across your channel tonight Chris and I can say that I very much enjoy watching your Blue light runs! Interesting to see how you guys do it on the other side of the globe. Hello from a firey Downunder!

6:27 "stradding the white lines ... is my 'safety bubble'" is what i actually learned and use myself. We live through parts of a country where streetlight is VERY UNCOMMON and lots of obstacles on either sides, stradding in the middle of the road even on a two way road is my safety bubble too. I always use this when driving through the mountains at night every weekend. Sometimes there would be trucks parking on sides, construction materials, or just crack up dogs randomly crossing. Only thing i have to be careful when in the middle of the road is dogs laying exactly in the middle. Almost hit one.

Very informative 👍

My new life goal is to get the coveted ‘double beep’ from an emergency responder haha.

Hi Chris. I've been watching your Bleu Light runs, thank you for addeting the info on "our" behaviour on the road. There used to be a Dutch Ambulance (Robin/Ambuchannel) driver who did the same. But after doing so for almost 2 years, he had to remove ALL his video's from his YT channel and stop making these video's. I always tought they were amazing to watch and to learn from. Keep 'm coming :-) Niels from The Netherlands.

just realised we share the same name haha, great video!

Some bloody aware drivers in the first couple of minutes!!

While y'all may drive on the wrong side of the road (sorry gotta pick on y'all a bit 'bout that lol), I have noticed that drivers over there seem to actually GET it, and are far more likely to properly yield than over here in the States. Well done! Please stay safe out there!

Does the fact that your vehicle is unmarked lead drivers to think you might be a police unit pulling them over, so in the scenario at 5:20 does that increase the chance of the car in front slowing down as you remain behind them, rather than passing?

8:00 Speed camera flashes like giving you achievements!

Kinda brings back the nostalgia of the legendary Ambuchannel

Another great video - any chance we can see your speed on the screen? Well done to all the drivers here.

Looks like a great driving game

Hi Chris, thinking about getting into paramedic science or emergency medicine and can't pick between the two. Did you ever consider working in A&E and what would you say the main differences are?

I think you get more reaction at night just because your in a black car with blues and twos on people mistake you for a police car plus of course it’s night time and you stand out more great driving tho I’ve been an advanced driver myself for some 25 years best thing I did ought to be compulsorily after your driving test great vid 👍🇬🇧

Saw the part about being in the middle of the road, on the lines ( Safety bubble? ) Would it be possible for you to link or explain this please? Would be much appreciated, thank you and great videos.

Some surprisingly alert drivers here

You drive right by my house a lot. :o)

I've watched a few of these 'blue-light runs' videos on here. It absolutely amazes me - how many drivers DON'T remember their highway code... and what to do when they see blue lights in their mirrors ! That's IF they're actually using them at all !

Correct me if I’m wrong, but what I’m taking from this on sirens and lights is lights are there to warn drivers you are there and siren is used to almost let them know you have a place you can overtake? So if blue lights are behind with no siren, proceed ahead unless you have a safe place to pull in, once sirens are heard, pull to the side to aide the responding vehicle?

How do speeding tickets work when you're on a blue light call, is there some check made to make sure you haven't just flipped them on to get home on time for tea ( ;) ) or is there an automatic cancellation associated with your registration and understanding that if you've got the lights on, you mean business? Very interesting videos, and agree they should form part of mandatory driver training on how to best help the emergency services, I feel like I've learned a few things.

Can we see your speed on your next video if possible. I'm always curious as to how fast your going :)

Appologise if asked previously. On the long left where you did not want to over take you only silence the audio and not the lights? Do we (the public) not have to react to a light over siren? Some cars may not have sirens but are equipped with temp lights. - Awesome content hope more see this as very educational. Thanks Chris!

Just thought, how do you day to day swtich off your brain from auto pilot when not in blue light mode, even in personal driving at red traffic light do you get a thought itch and have to stop yourself and rethink - stop its a red light ?

I didn't know until my driving instructor told me that the sirens are controlled via the horn, I always thought they were switches somewhere, so I wonder if although the siren is being turned off (by the double horn) some people may think they are being beeped at and therefore feel pushed to pull over even though that's not what was intended. I also forget that despite how much driver training rapid response drivers go through, they are still human and the more we can do to help them get past the easier it is for them.

interesting piece of emergency driving there. Personally I like emergency runs at night time, with the difference here that I hardly ever make use of sirens during night shifts, at least between 10 PM and 5 AM I hardly switch the siren on as it's simply not necessary here;

I've seen some blue light runs where they kill both lights and sirens if the intention is cars keep moving/or not i.e. when they and/or you have no where to go, dodgy bend for overtaking, etc. and you don't want them to panic stop or put themselves or others in danger? Just wondering if there was any difference in the response driver training or are they just training runs. Excellent driving by the way and hats off to all you response vehicle drivers.

At 4.15 coming to the roundabout you had lights but np sirens and the roundabout looked partially covered would sirens assisted you just to make sure if someone on the roundabout was made more aware .

I wanna know if the siren sounds change themselves or do you change them? Like is there different tones/notes for different situations?

Is there any reason you cruise mostly on the wail siren rather than the 2 tone siren? It’s just that I thought the 2 tone was used in europe because it’s easier for people to notice earlier.

Just a quick question from your point of view. What do you do if a speed camera flashes you as your are responding?

Nice video. Tho emergency bubble I had to think for a minute that you meant your mini blue bar light. A full size would work better oe put one on the front top also. Still surprised you are using sirens like they use here in the States. Was surprised not the European High/Low I am used to hearing. As for driving on or along the white line ,that's easy. But I will let you explain it on your own. What siren box are you using?. Stay safe and take care ,Mike

Hi Mate, I always wondered how you guys stand the ambulance noise? Do you have some kind of ear protection?

I also wonder, if on a dual carriageway a quick left signal is useful to let the EMS driver know that you’re aware of them. A bit like one might do to aid a motorcycle who’s ’making progress’ on a nice twisty B road.

What happens when you get flashed by the speed cameras? Does the ticket get sent, or are all emergency vehicles on some sort of whitelist?

We have been told that every second counts for ems. So, at the set of red traffic lights, with no possibility of going onto the other side of the road, and the highway code( in the UK )telling us don't cross the solid white line when the lights are red. What do they teach you to do, is it switch of sirens and lights or just siren? Also I know people will cross the line to let you past as every second counts, but what would ems prefer drivers to do and why?