Accident at track day

[man le-mans]

I was on a track day last week when a MX5 rolled and the 2 blokes in the car was knocked around abit. Can anyone tell me why a air ambulance was called 3 police cars 2 paramedics cars and 2 ambulance vans turned up even tho the blokes was ok. And when the question was ask was the blokes ok the answer we got was yes they are ok just shaken up and the air ambulance was in the area. What about all the other ambulances and police cars then.
Talk about a waste of money for all them services

[zollaf]

was it cos prince's harry and william were driving ???

[dreddfan]

Coz they hoped to cut up a sports car? At least they were all ok.

[gazza57]

mans le mans


Nobody will be able to tell you why they attended, it is a clinical judgement made on experience of attending collisions like this every day on the road, that is a matter for them and is no concern of yours, or mine or anyones, but thank god they did, if it's a false alarm, so what?
Better that than somebody dying at the trackside.
What you might have failed to consider is that either of the car's occupants may have injuries internally which had not manifested themselves and if they had, the golden hour in which most people having say an internal bleed will either live or die.
Car occupants who have told paramedics they're fine have lapsed into unconsciousness and coma at the roadside perhaps half an hour after an accident with internal bleeds in the pelvis or a haemotoma in the brain.
If any of those people were somebody close to you, I rather suspect you would not feel it a waste of money in those circumstances.
They are just erring on the side of safety and to criticise them for that is a bit unfair, had they not attended and somebody had keeled over and died due to an undetected bleed there would be scores of people wanting to know why they had failed to attend.


Gazza57

[man le-mans]

Gazza57

i can understand being careful with people's life's and I know the air ambulances aren't state funded. But why did it need 3 police cars 6 police officers when I'm sure 1 car with 2 police would have been able to cope with the crash which was only one car involved.
But maybe that explains why you get 6 police cars turn up for 1 man speeding at 32 mph in a 30 zone.
And altho you are right it isn't no concern of mine or anyone else what happens at them accidents it's the people that pay their taxes that pay for these services.
Also when they are SOMETIMES needed to act like when the local plumbing suppliers near here got broken into and a gypsies van was seen on CCTV breaking into the yard and taking lots of equipment they then refuse to investigate, as they can't see the van loaded from the road.
When on national TV a stolen car is being chased by a traffic police car and after about 20 minutes or so of the stolen car bumping up and down kerbs hitting a parked car they drove onto a gypsies site and abandon the car. The police went onto the site got into the stolen car and drove off then said well we got the car back. Like it was now any good as it had been damaged and abused for the past 20 minutes. Did the police call for back up to search which caravan he run into. NO and there excuse was it could have been 3-4 caravans he run into and we never see which one it was. So why did they not call for back up search the caravans and get the person that stole the car.
I bet if he would have run into a house I guess they would have search it and got the thief

[joedredd]

I totally understand on why HEMS and ambulances were called, but why the police?? Its a track day not on the road.

[gazza57]

The police are always summoned to attend whenever an accident occurs which requires an ambulance because although no road traffic offence may have been committed, there may be some culpability on the part of the organisers in respect of safety of both drivers and spectators.
This involves the taking of statements and the understanding of how the incident unfolded which subsequently may be used should any legal action follow.

I can't see the probem personally,

Do I care if a police car turns up...not really, just another emergency service ensuring proper protocols are followed.

Gazza57

[gazza57]

Trouble is Mans

The police are in a catch 22 situation, some thieving scrote nicks a car and then drives it like a tool around roads, hitting other cars, kerbs and sometimes worse pedestrians, so if the police pursue too vigorously, and one of these idiots ends up killing someone, instead of concentrating on the real culprit, the proper perpetrator, eyes are fixed on to the police for pursuing them.

Wrong emphasis, the person responsible is the thief, end of story, in my view even if a police car is in a collision with another car whilst pursuing a car thief, its still the thief that is culpable, to suggest that the police car is in some way to blame is just plain crazy, the police car would not have had the accident had they not been forced to pursue some amoeba brained pond bottom feeder who feels it is acceptable to steal somebody's car for which they have worked hard to pay and to lead the police on a pursuit.

These days in an attempt to show that police are impartial, (most are, barring a few bad apples) we have the useless and hideously expensive rigmarole of the IPCC who have to conduct an expensive investigation so that some civil servant can tick a box stating that we have not done an injustice to the thief, who decides this stuff are they on drugs?
If a thief kills themself in an attempt to evade capture, its unfortunate but again you are the product of your own destiny and should accept responsibility for your own actions, drive stupidly and get killed...tough no sympathy.

The law should be changed to apportion blame entirely on the individual who stole the car, and if someone dies after being struck by a police car then this should include culpable manslaughter or even murder.
I don't give a monkey's cuss if they are locked up forever, I really don't, all the time they are incarcerated it prevents them from breaking, stealing people's possessions or hurting people, I care NOTHING for their rehabilitation, NOTHING not one iota.
They are the product of their own destiny, do it, go to prison end of story.

Gazza57