"Owain" wrote in message
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The Medway Handyman wrote:
PeterMcC wrote:
Given 24 hours, there may have been time to get the patient to the
hospital and still report the accident.
Its LAS policy to report immediately & use another truck - don't know
why.

(a) because the ambulance personnel may be distracted/traumatised by such
an incident, which puts their patient and other road users at increased
risk

According to TMH they probably had to stop because they were laughing too
much.
Probably ran the dog down on purpose too just for a lark.
After all he did say they have dark humor.

(b) because the newspaper headline "ambulance killed my dog and didn't
stop" is more embarrassing than "ambulance killed my dog"
(c) because the personnel might think they had hit a dog, but had actually
hit a child
(d) because the vehicle might have been damaged


?

Owain