Importance of Safely Responding to Emergency Incidents as an Emergency Response Driver (P3)
It is important to respond safely to an incident as the response driver is driving at excessive speeds, through a small village they could endanger other people’s lives and cause more damage.
If the response driver is too slow; the injured person could die before the responder arrives at the scene. Response drivers have to do advance driving tests to prove that they can drive at high speeds and keep in control of the vehicle.
When responding to an emergency call, response drivers from all three public services must not exceed a certain percentage over the speed limit of a particular road. For example on a 30mph road a response driver must not drive at speeds over 60mph.
This is because of the extra associated dangers that are presented on this type of road these are things such as exposed lamp posts, residential areas where children and other pedestrians are likely to cross or even play in, this means the chances of hitting someone are greatly increased.
