Call 911 from the Bike

Actually, you dial 999 for rescue services in the UK (but even 112 like it does in the rest of the European Union).  Here's a photo taken in the town's pedestrian shopping district.  This isn't as silly as it looks; the Brits found they were not meeting their target of responding to emergencies within 8 minutes at least 75% of the time.  Getting a bike into congested areas where the rider/technician can stabilize the patient until a proper ambulance arrives got them a lot closer to this target.  These "ambubikes" have sirens and flashers (hopefully not the rider) as well as radios and defibrillators.  17% of the time, the rider resolves the problem and the vehicle ambulance turns around.  (Recently I was in the Detroit airport where the long concourses are patrolled by cops on Segways.  Not even the Motor City thinks every problem can be solved by getting into a car!)


 

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