RMweb Premium rab Posted January 16, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 16, 2019 Blue lights and level crossings...... https://www.facebook.com/1698143793568120/videos/321454468588679/ Oh no, we've gone from headlights to blue lights. I thought the idea of an ambulance was to take people away from danger, not into it. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted January 16, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 16, 2019 Not so, its a Diesel railcar complete with traditional side buffer and hook couplings, but it was stationary waiting. Rgds Well I knew it wasn’t a Deltic Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 16, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 16, 2019 Complete with buffers and couplings. I think it may be in Bangalore (Bengalaru) or somewhere else in Karnataka, If so AFAIK they don't have any tram systems. Keith Not anywhere on the Indian sub-continent, drive on the right applies. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted January 16, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 16, 2019 Please can we get this topic back on-thread about the difficulty of changing car headlight lamps/bulbs? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
62613 Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 Not anywhere on the Indian sub-continent, drive on the right applies. Thailand? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted January 17, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 17, 2019 Blue lights and level crossings...... https://www.facebook.com/1698143793568120/videos/321454468588679/ Looks like it might be a private ambulance type of thing - so perhaps not professionally trained driver? In other words another total numpty and something I would hope never to see from, say, an NHS ambo driver? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welchester Posted January 17, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 17, 2019 Looks like it might be a private ambulance type of thing - so perhaps not professionally trained driver? In other words another total numpty and something I would hope never to see from, say, an NHS ambo driver? I've only come across 'private ambulance' as a euphemism on undertakers' vans. These don't generally require blue lights. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted January 17, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 17, 2019 Looks like it might be a private ambulance type of thing - so perhaps not professionally trained driver? In other words another total numpty and something I would hope never to see from, say, an NHS ambo driver? The driver made a horrible job of attempting to reverse the thing. Panic mode set in? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted January 17, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 17, 2019 I've only come across 'private ambulance' as a euphemism on undertakers' vans. These don't generally require blue lights. This is true - I'm thinking more of this kind of thing - https://www.eventmedic.co.uk/ 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted January 17, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 17, 2019 I've only come across 'private ambulance' as a euphemism on undertakers' vans. These don't generally require blue lights. In Australia, we do have patient transport ambulances, which are primarily intended to move patients around between hospitals and medical appointments. They aren't fully equipped, but they do have a full set of lights and sirens. I believe they can be called upon to assist in emergencies. https://www.ambulance.vic.gov.au/about-us/our-services/non-emergency-patient-transport/ Ambulances are NOT a free service under our Medicare system (equivalent to NHS more or less), except for road accidents, those on a pension and unemployed. Costs are very expensive. I see Bucoops has posted a similar thing in the UK. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damo666 Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 In Australia, we do have patient transport ambulances, which are primarily intended to move patients around between hospitals and medical appointments...... And in Ireland too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
meil Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 A good attempt Keith. Looks like the van went the same way as the thread, knocked off track I like the way the other vehicles moved before the impact - they could see what was coming! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 Not sure if this link will work - But here's another one https://www.facebook.com/270856339684060/posts/1553003854802629/ 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 17, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 17, 2019 Not anywhere on the Indian sub-continent, drive on the right applies. Thailand? The only countries in the region who drive on the right are Myanma (Burma), Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. I suspect its either Tiawan or South Korea or possibly the Phillipines. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted January 17, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 17, 2019 Not sure if this link will work - But here's another one https://www.facebook.com/270856339684060/posts/1553003854802629/ Bloody hell! Poor guy who stepped in to help nearly didn’t get out of that one in one piece, had it been right hand drive I think it would have been game over Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glorious NSE Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 Two very lucky car drivers in Illinois: https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2018/12/28/officer-misses-train-dashcam-newday-vpx.cnn I've just watched that again, and realised they are very, very lucky! The barriers don't start to come down till half the train is over the crossing. Update on this one - CBS Chicago has a facebook post with the in-train footage, at least 3 trains passed over the crossing during the period the gates were malfunctioning, from what I can see the above footage was the third train to approach. The first pass was just as lucky not to result in fatalities as the third one was. https://www.facebook.com/cbschicago/videos/vb.27510768337/246651849567390/?type=2&theater Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted January 17, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 17, 2019 Bloody hell! Poor guy who stepped in to help nearly didn’t get out of that one in one piece, had it been right hand drive I think it would have been game over Personally, I think the good Samaritan was the biggest fool. There comes a point where a car just isn't worth saving, especially as presumably not his! Luckily the train had almost stopped. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted January 17, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 17, 2019 Update on this one - CBS Chicago has a facebook post with the in-train footage, at least 3 trains passed over the crossing during the period the gates were malfunctioning, from what I can see the above footage was the third train to approach. The first pass was just as lucky not to result in fatalities as the third one was. https://www.facebook.com/cbschicago/videos/vb.27510768337/246651849567390/?type=2&theater That's unbelievable that they'd let the crossing stay open. The trains are about 40 minutes apart. Plenty of time to alert the relevant authorities, in a so called civilised country. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glorious NSE Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 That's unbelievable that they'd let the crossing stay open. The trains are about 40 minutes apart. Plenty of time to alert the relevant authorities, in a so called civilised country. Certainly some serious cock-up somewhere. My supposition is that train 1 has the first serious near miss and calls it in. Train 2 cautioned, approaches slower, the gates activate as the engineer would expect and he accelerates, only to have to put it into emergency when the gates go up in his face. Train 3 either doesn't told about the crossing issue, or doesn't react to that message. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted January 17, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 17, 2019 Not anywhere on the Indian sub-continent, drive on the right applies. Hadn't noticed. I was going by the poster's language and the links which are from India. Keith 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roythebus Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 Rather a lot of protection for a tram line? This sort of thing suffices in the UK: https://goo.gl/maps/bRcQUKcxkaU2 Keith The "tram" in that video is a train, it has buffers. Trams don't. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.hill64 Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 The only countries in the region who drive on the right are Myanma (Burma), Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. I suspect its either Tiawan or South Korea or possibly the Phillipines. It's not Taiwan or South Korea. 'Ambulans' is I guess a bahasa word, so I thought about Indonesia but teh gauge is wrong. How about Poland? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 18, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 18, 2019 It's not Taiwan or South Korea. 'Ambulans' is I guess a bahasa word, so I thought about Indonesia but teh gauge is wrong. How about Poland? Quite likely as ambulances in Poland carry similar colours to that in the clip. Indonesia also drives on the left. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted January 18, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 18, 2019 The "tram" in that video is a train, it has buffers. Trams don't. Maybe, but the potential to hurt is the same! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 It's not Taiwan or South Korea. 'Ambulans' is I guess a bahasa word, so I thought about Indonesia but teh gauge is wrong. How about Poland? Most likely, the unit looks like an SA133 or SA134, built in Bydgoszcz. The Facebook account is in Kannada (language from India). 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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