In message , Adrian
Brentnall writes
Hi All

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 15:09:30 +0000, Dave Fawthrop
wrote:

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:30:40 -0000, "Jonathan Pearson"
wrote:

| david lang wrote:
| Hi All
|
| A bit off topic but...............
|
| Apparently true story from my daughter who is a EMT2 with London
| Ambulance.
| WPC driving a panda car is involved in a RTA, her panda badly
| damaged. Two coppers arrive in a patrol car, remove her from the
| wrecked panda and sit her in the back of their patrol car to keep
| warm while they sort things out.
| Paramedic arrives and gives coppers a serious bollocking for moving
| the WPC - who could have had neck or spinal injuries.
|
| Paramedic then examines WPC and decides that she could well have neck
| or spinal injuries. He tells the police that the only safe way to
| remove her is on a spinal board with a neck brace - and the only way
| to do that - is to remove the roof of the police car!
|
| Police protest loudly, but in these cases the paramedics word is
| final, so the fire brigade (trying not to laugh) cut the roof off of
| a nearly new undamaged patrol car!
|
| Anyone want a police cabriolet?
|
| Dave
|
| I read about a similar thing about a year ago, however it didn't
|involve the
| police - it was with members of the public - I recall that the car whose
| roof was removed was only a few weeks old - maybe this was the same
| incident!

More likely an urban legend, like "the elephant and the mini".

Apparently not.....

This happened a couple of months ago out here in Suffolk - member of
public was the one sat in the back of the police car after a minor RTA
- and, to make matters worse, the police car in question was less than
a month old. Reported in the local papers, also by a close friend who
is a civvy working with the police !

So, is there anywhere in the country where this hasn't happened ?


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geoff