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Default Alton Towers accident and 999 calls

"Jethro_uk" wrote in message
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On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 18:47:42 +0100, ARW wrote:

It might have taken Alton Towers 11 minutes to call for an ambulance

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-33011347

but surely that was just to give the teenagers time to take selfies and
post on facebook, twitter and snapchat etc before the ambulance crews
arrived.


And yet, in this (frankly uplifting) story, the crowd active prevented
filming

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32993891

from that link

"To his astonishment there were still people on the bus, apparently unaware.
"A few of us started shouting for them to get off," he says. A double-decker
bus is hard enough to shift without passengers, and emptying it seems to
have made the crucial difference."

I cannot see a few people still on the bus making much difference. Unless
they are the same weight as my SiL



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