Near Miss: Lost Control of POV
For our weekly near-miss feature, we will focus on an EMS call where the driver lost control of their privately-owned vehicle.
I was dispatched to a Cardic Patient-charlie response in September of 2005. At which time I responded priority three, code three, in my personal vehicle. I drove too fast to the scene and at a dangerous left turn I slid a little bit and entered the opposite lane of traffic where a lost member of my same department was in, less than twenty five yards away. It was only by the grace of providence that I had enough time and yardage to regain control of my vehicle to just barely swerve back into the correct lane of traffic.
This ties in with our poll for this week (see sidebar). It doesn't do any good to drive fast and get in a wreck responding to an incident. Here are some discussion questions for a 10 minute training session:
Do your emergency responders drive safely while responding to an incident (in POVs and apparatus)?
Does your department have policies and procedures on safe driving?
Does your department leadership enforce the policies and procedures when someone drives recklessly?
Posted December 22, 2005 11:27 AM · Link
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