On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:28:32 +0000, magwitch wrote:
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.

Right... I've not read the report, but I did look at the photo of the
vehicle - and it wasn't obvious that there *was* an ambulance sign on the
bonnet or sides. There appeared to be something stuck in the rear
passenger windows, but that could be missed if point of contact was
initally from the front (and then presumably front-quarter to have a word
with the driver).

If any ambulance sign was present up by the lights then it seems
reasonable that if the lights were missed then so was this sign.

On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 14:28:34 +0000, Roland Perry
wrote:
or maybe just red (yes there are solid red ambulances too)
http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/ambulance/dsc10814.jpg

First responders often use their own car, or a pool car, with magnetic
signs applied to the side and the front. So you can have any colour
ambulance you like!

Here's a blue one:
http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/...l/article.html

Ob - not quite rail blue. Or Cambus blue.

Richard.

In article op.uov5p4nehaghkf@lucy, Duncan Wood wrote:
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:-)

So does the report of course. The word "ambulance" being in bold red on
the back and bold green on the front might be what was being referred to
in that bit of the description. (Assuming the back of the CR-V involved
has similar coloured lettering to The A-class in Roland's photo.
Possibly "red and yellow check" actually refers to a similar pattern to
the photo too. Not that it's relevent.)

In message . com, at
13:33:51 on Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Jules
remarked:
Right... I've not read the report, but I did look at the photo of the
vehicle - and it wasn't obvious that there *was* an ambulance sign on the
bonnet or sides.

There's also a certain degree of function creep in the use of the word
"Ambulance".

Is this a Fire Engine:

http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/fire/dcp00999.jpg
--
Roland Perry

In message , at 19:43:39 on
Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Richard remarked:
First responders often use their own car, or a pool car, with magnetic
signs applied to the side and the front. So you can have any colour
ambulance you like!

I think that's a "first response vehicle", not an Ambulance.
--
Roland Perry

On Feb 5, 7:56*pm, (Alan Braggins) wrote:
In article op.uov5p4nehaghkf@lucy, Duncan Wood wrote:
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:-)

So does the report of course. *The word "ambulance" being in bold red on
the back and bold green on the front might be what was being referred to
in that bit of the description. (Assuming the back of the CR-V involved
has similar coloured lettering to The A-class in Roland's photo.
Possibly "red and yellow check" actually refers to a similar pattern to
the photo too. Not that it's relevent.)-

I would take "ambulance" to mean a vehicle which carries sick or
injured people.

The word "ambulance" on this vehicle more likely relates to the fact
that it belongs to the ambulance service, just as it would if it was
written on a bicycle or a building. (And such buildings or bicycles
would need to be treated with appropriate respect, and not
obstructed.)

This was evidently an ambulance service vehicle carrying a paramedic,
despite the URL implying that it was carrying an injured person and
the article referring to it as an ambulance.

On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:56:12 -0000, Alan Braggins
wrote:

In article op.uov5p4nehaghkf@lucy, Duncan Wood wrote:
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:-)

So does the report of course. The word "ambulance" being in bold red on
the back and bold green on the front might be what was being referred to
in that bit of the description. (Assuming the back of the CR-V involved
has similar coloured lettering to The A-class in Roland's photo.
Possibly "red and yellow check" actually refers to a similar pattern to
the photo too. Not that it's relevent.)


Well it's sitting in Milton during the rush hour & seems to attend the
middle of town fairly often & most of the large scale events.

Duncan Wood wrote:
On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:56:12 -0000, Alan Braggins
wrote:


Well it's sitting in Milton during the rush hour & seems to attend the
middle of town fairly often & most of the large scale events.

Are you one of those ambulance chasers then?

On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Roland Perry wrote:

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.

It was the official council investigating commissar's report that did.
Possibly the papers did too, but i haven't looked at those.

tom

--
GOLDIE LOOKIN' CHAIN [...] will ultimately make all other forms of music
both redundant and unnecessary -- NTK

On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:46:19 -0000, magwitch wrote:

Duncan Wood wrote:
On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:56:12 -0000, Alan Braggins
wrote:


Well it's sitting in Milton during the rush hour & seems to attend the
middle of town fairly often & most of the large scale events.

Are you one of those ambulance chasers then?


Not according to my tax return :-)