If they are dead, please tell us

The weather is dire, it has been raining constantly all morning and now the roads are perilous. There are huge puddles of standing water and visibility is poor.

Not great conditions for a 4.5t vehicle, being driven on the edge.

I am driving on the edge to get to a 60 year old man, who is lying face down in a pool of vomit, 15 miles away. The caller is unwilling to move the patient, despite requests from our control. Whatever the circumstances, this guy deserves the best help we can give him, as quickly as I can get to him.

To say the drive is a challenge is an understatement! The truck skips across the road markings, planes through the standing water and with this much water on the brakes, needs the same distance to stop as the average Royal Navy frigate.

We finally arrive at the address to be met by the Police.

'hope you got the message not to rush boys as he has been gone for a while, we told our control.'

Thank the stars for effective inter service communication!