When it comes tobring a emergency medical care, emergency services do not take half measures. So, walls for example (Ambulance and resuscitation) has nimble and fast vehiclesable to transport doctors and paramedics as quickly as possible. Volvo XC70, Mitsubishi Pajero, Land Rover Discovery : the selection of these models is based on tenders conducted by the SAMU services city by city or department by department. Of fire departments, models are more standardized. THE VSAV (firefighters’ “ambulances”) are really large medical vans, not converted passenger cars. But soldiers still have fire benefits for motorists.

Priority vehicles of general purpose

Starting with them priority car status. Once they biton mermaid is on (unlike tritone sirens, which are not priority), it is necessary to facilitate their passage. The way for them (but also for gendarmes, police, SAMU or customs in particular) is to get to the place of intervention as quickly as possible. Among other exceptions specific to them, traffic on reserved lanes especially for other vehicles. There are, of course, bus or taxi lines as well as stiff shoulders. But also bicycle paths, which they can borrow around town to save precious seconds in an emergency. It could well be that in 2022 the fire brigade of Paris was faster thanks to these tracks…

Save or perish

Anyway, this is what a cyclist recently wrote on Twitter. Emmanuel SPV (@EmmanuelSPV) thus explaining that in 2022 in Paris time to reach the intervention site rose an average of 6 minutes and 15 seconds. Against 7 minutes 46 seconds in 2019! Time savings that would become possible through use precious bike lanes which multiply in the capital. In 2022, BSPP recognized 498,162 interventions in Paris and the suburbs. An increase of 7% compared to 2021, that is, on average 1365 operations per day ! They counted 1,339,561 calls to 112 or 18 and saved 33,259 people.