I was coming home from work today in my truck because I need to do work on the bike. Guy comes up splitting on a big bike (silver, fully dressed). I move into shoulder and give him space to split past, then I back way off when he decides to merge into my lane. He eventually split past the car in front of me, then disappears in the distance. 5-10 minutes later, traffic stops. The left lane is closed because the same guy is down. Cops had lane blocked and ambulance got there as I was watching.
What pisses me off is the ambulance driver made no attempt to get there quickly. An emergency road vehicle went in the shoulder to get to the front almost instantly. For a long time, I could see the ambulance sitting in bumper to bumper traffic. No lights, no nothing. He could have been there in seconds, but instead he spent at least 10 minutes in traffic, taking his sweet time.
Is there anyway that the ambulance driver didn't know about it? Really? Could he have been driving an ambulance with no radio on and it was simply a coincidence that he was there?
Best wishes to the rider, and to the ambulance driver, if you were called and that's the best you could do, you need to throw in the towel and get another job.
What pisses me off is the ambulance driver made no attempt to get there quickly. An emergency road vehicle went in the shoulder to get to the front almost instantly. For a long time, I could see the ambulance sitting in bumper to bumper traffic. No lights, no nothing. He could have been there in seconds, but instead he spent at least 10 minutes in traffic, taking his sweet time.
Is there anyway that the ambulance driver didn't know about it? Really? Could he have been driving an ambulance with no radio on and it was simply a coincidence that he was there?
Best wishes to the rider, and to the ambulance driver, if you were called and that's the best you could do, you need to throw in the towel and get another job.
