AMBULANCE DELAYS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 144, 19 June 1926, Page 15

AMBULANCE DELAYS.

(To the Editor.) I Sir,—-The necessity of adopting some method to give ambulances a quicker run to the hospital and avoid road 6bstr_ction has of late been evident, and the matter' should receive the 1 attention of the authorities. Earing" the past week several cases have Occurred where the ambulance car has been seriously delayed by other vehicles blocking the way. A few minutes' earlier .arrival _t_ tlie" . htispHal mriy often give the patient a better chance of recovery. Why not, then, introduce some distinguishing horn or siren, as in the case of the fire brigade, thris enabling ambulance drivers to have precedence and give right of r'oa_? The sounding of {lie horn would also obviate i_«S difficulty pi hofciups at street intersections, arid give other traffic" a cn___T of Aiming to* t_« Side of the jdad, tins feftirig" the ambulance run quickly through: The inainl idea is riot sp£e4, as speed! is ndt always possible', ojfifig to the. extent' of some df the 4 patients' but such _ii arrdngenfent ivould giv# the driver' a clear arid tifißbsirU'jte'd fiifi t& and from' the scene of 'accident' &d the hbspital. Goirig- to an accident,, the ambulance driver selddm knows how urgent the case! iis, and any delay may. mean a difference' between life arid death*.—l am, etc., BtUMMITY.