Bad driving - Fire these idiots

[spenac]

If posted and I missed sorry.

But these people in the ambulance and the car behind should be fired.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dkNXabcSfw...feature=related

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[fiznat]

Fired? Why? It isn't apparent at all that they were screwing around or trying to spin the truck on purpose. We drive hundreds, sometimes thousands of miles per month in our ambulances. Mistakes happen. These employees probably need a refresher and a wake up call about driving safety, but firing them? Calling them idiots? Thats a bit extreme.

[spenac]

To fast for road conditions. Second car for following to close especially for road conditions.

[crazyemt5150]

wow that's crazy, That unit is really lucky that they didn't catch an edge and then flip over. If that was me I would of had to change my pants for sure/

[scubanurse]

How can you tell from a poor quality video how fast the ambulance is driving? It's unfortunate that this accident happened but I don't see how we can judge the drivers from just a little video clip where you can't telll speed.

[CBEMT]

How do you know the person in the car had anything to do with the agency involved?

[AnthonyM83]

Naw, wouldn't fire just for that video. Find out exactly what was going on, driver's experience (accident record or lack of), training given, etc. That's something potentially correctable.

[JakeEMTP]

How can you tell from a poor quality video how fast the ambulance is driving? It's unfortunate that this accident happened but I don't see how we can judge the drivers from just a little video clip where you can't telll speed.

If they spun out, they were driving to fast for conditions. At minimum, they began to slow down far to late.

[Just Plain Ruff]

I see no accident that happened just a spin out.

Maybe too fast for conditions but maybe not.

Case in point, we were responding to a mvc out in our county. It was icy. We had to go. We were going about 5-7 miles per hour and we hit a patch of ice. WE spun out and ended up sideways in the roadway like these guys did. Were we going too fast for the road conditions, yeah probably so, do we deserve to get fired, NOPE NOPE NOPE.

So without a proper connotation to this incident we have no way of knowing what to think. We can sit here as a collective judgemental group, which we are by the way, and say fire the driver etc but until we know all the particulars there is no call to fire these drivers.

[crotchitymedic1986]

This accident could be as a result of using the Jake Brake in slippery conditions. There is contradictory information regarding whether or not the use of the jake brake in slippery conditions will cause your vehicle to spin. When you go to the owner's manual, the instructions for driving in slippery conditions are written in a way to suggest that there could be a problem, that they do not want to admit to.

http://www.jakebrake.com/products/docs/Operators-manual.pdf