In message , at
13:21:35 on Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Tom Anderson
remarked:

The 4 x 4 vehicle was marked clearly as a paramedic vehicle in bold
red and green colouring

Huh. It does rather look like that's an error in the report, then.

Red and yellow is fi

http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/fire/dscd0609.jpg

(Or sometimes ambulances sigh
http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/ambulance/dsc02302.jpg )

Yellow and green is paramedics:
http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/ambulance/p1150013.jpg

As is white and green:
http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/ambulance/p1140214.jpg

Haven't found any red and green yet.

Closest is Orange and green (animal ambulance)
http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/ambulance/dscd0552.jpg

or maybe just red (yes there are solid red ambulances too)
http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/ambulance/dsc10814.jpg
--
Roland Perry

Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at
13:21:35 on Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Tom Anderson
remarked:

The 4 x 4 vehicle was marked clearly as a paramedic vehicle in bold
red and green colouring

Huh. It does rather look like that's an error in the report, then.

Red and yellow is fi

http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/fire/dscd0609.jpg

(Or sometimes ambulances sigh
http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/ambulance/dsc02302.jpg )

Yellow and green is paramedics:
http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/ambulance/p1150013.jpg

As is white and green:
http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/ambulance/p1140214.jpg

Haven't found any red and green yet.

Closest is Orange and green (animal ambulance)
http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/ambulance/dscd0552.jpg

or maybe just red (yes there are solid red ambulances too)
http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/ambulance/dsc10814.jpg

Red/green colour-blindness?

Should Colin have a test? This sounds increasingly like a plausible
Rumpole-style defence.

There was an episode about a defendant who was belatedly found to be
illiterate and hence unable to have read and signed his police confession.

magwitch wrote:
Red/green colour-blindness?

Should Colin have a test? This sounds increasingly like a plausible
Rumpole-style defence.

Not really, unless he's paramedic-deaf as well. The paramedic told him
he was a paramedic on a call-out.

A roof-rack with coloured lights, and the words "Ambulance" liberally
scattered around the vehicle, wouldn't really support that defence either.

Jon
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In message , at 14:48:40 on
Thu, 5 Feb 2009, magwitch remarked:

Red/green colour-blindness?

It's the newspapers that are claiming the paramedic's car was red and
green.
--
Roland Perry

On Feb 5, 2:48*pm, magwitch wrote:
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at
13:21:35 on Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Tom Anderson
remarked:

* The 4 x 4 vehicle was marked clearly as a paramedic vehicle in bold
* red and green colouring

Huh. It does rather look like that's an error in the report, then.

Red and yellow is fi

http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/fire/dscd0609.jpg

(Or sometimes ambulances sigh
* *http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/ambulance/dsc02302.jpg)

Yellow and green is paramedics:
http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/ambulance/p1150013.jpg

As is white and green:
http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/ambulance/p1140214.jpg

Haven't found any red and green yet.

Closest is Orange and green (animal ambulance)
http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/ambulance/dscd0552.jpg

or maybe just red (yes there are solid red ambulances too)
http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/ambulance/dsc10814.jpg

Red/green colour-blindness?

Should Colin have a test? This sounds increasingly like a plausible
Rumpole-style defence.

There was an episode about a defendant who was belatedly found to be
illiterate and hence unable to have read and signed his police confession..-

"I was approaching the red traffic light, so the Doppler effect made
it appear green." I have a feeling that one may actually have been
tried.

In article , magwitch wrote:

Red/green colour-blindness?

I imagine the paramedic driver knows what colour his vehicle is even
if he is colour blind.

Elsewhere in the report he says that it is green and yellow down the
side, red and yellow check to the rear end, and that it displays the
word ambulance (in unspecified colours).


Should Colin have a test?

Why should Colin have a test because someone else wrote a misleading
description of the vehicle?

The description of the vehicle as marked "in bold red and green colouring"
is in the section headed "Mr Austine's evidence", not the section headed
"Councillor Rosenstiel's evidence", and it appears to be the investigator's
summary of the paramedic's more accurate description.

In message , at 17:44:07 on
Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Alan Braggins remarked:
Elsewhere in the report he says that it is green and yellow down the
side, red and yellow check to the rear end, and that it displays the
word ambulance (in unspecified colours).

http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/ambulance/dcp01118.jpg

The description of the vehicle as marked "in bold red and green colouring"

I suppose you could interpret the vehicle pictured above as "White and
Yellow" with "Red and Green markings", but it wouldn't be my most
intuitive way of expressing it.
--
Roland Perry

On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:09:00 -0000, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 17:44:07 on
Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Alan Braggins remarked:
Elsewhere in the report he says that it is green and yellow down the
side, red and yellow check to the rear end, and that it displays the
word ambulance (in unspecified colours).

http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/ambulance/dcp01118.jpg

The description of the vehicle as marked "in bold red and green
colouring"

I suppose you could interpret the vehicle pictured above as "White and
Yellow" with "Red and Green markings", but it wouldn't be my most
intuitive way of expressing it.


Yup, most of us would refer to it as an ambulance:-)

Alan Braggins wrote:
In article , magwitch wrote:
Red/green colour-blindness?

I imagine the paramedic driver knows what colour his vehicle is even
if he is colour blind.

Elsewhere in the report he says that it is green and yellow down the
side, red and yellow check to the rear end, and that it displays the
word ambulance (in unspecified colours).


Should Colin have a test?

Why should Colin have a test because someone else wrote a misleading
description of the vehicle?

The description of the vehicle as marked "in bold red and green colouring"
is in the section headed "Mr Austine's evidence", not the section headed
"Councillor Rosenstiel's evidence", and it appears to be the investigator's
summary of the paramedic's more accurate description.

The plot thickens.

I must say I rather think the 'Ambulance' sign on the vehicle is most
compelling evidence... in fact on reflection, the colour combination
perhaps might be a red herring after all.

Jon Green wrote:
magwitch wrote:
Red/green colour-blindness?

Should Colin have a test? This sounds increasingly like a plausible
Rumpole-style defence.

Not really, unless he's paramedic-deaf as well. The paramedic told him
he was a paramedic on a call-out.

A roof-rack with coloured lights, and the words "Ambulance" liberally
scattered around the vehicle, wouldn't really support that defence either.

Jon

Yeah but if he can't read... see what I'm getting (doggedly) at?

Perhaps it's some sort of 'data-exhaustion' syndrome, with which City
councillors seem to be increasingly afflicted, poor loves.