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wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Though I read a story (I think on lemmy, though it’s been a while) of someone trying to meet an ambulance in the middle of nowhere (Texas, I want to say?) as their friend was bleeding out, basically.

A lady did what you describe and it took critical time away. The friend ended up dying just before they met the emts.

Not everyone who looks like they are a dick, are one.

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Calfpupa@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Thats what emergency flashers are for.

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- snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yeah if they aren’t using the emergency lights then it means there’s no emergency. Pretty sure the first comment was talking about normal road users anyway…
  
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surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Anecdotes aren’t data.

Ride my ass so closely that you put me in danger, and I’m taking my time.

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- architect@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
  Just move the fuck over and don’t subject everyone to this bs. My husband does this and twice now these psychos acted erratically and followed us home. How the fuck is it worth it? Move over let them pass and get pulled over if it’s that bad.
  
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- prettybunnys@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  “Instead of letting the dangerous driver past me and away from me I am making the situation worse by attempting to intervene”
  
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- wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  ‘data points aren’t data’
  
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  - Hacksaw@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Anecdotes aren’t data points either. For data points to become useful data they have to be standardised across parameters to create valid correlations. Anecdotes are not that.
    
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socsa@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Shit happens and sometimes you won’t be there for it and that’s just life. It’s not a justification to put everyone else on the road in danger.

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- wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Easy to say when it’s not you bleeding out, but alright fam
  
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Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
If you do what the comment describes it’s fine. But if you do it to an ambulance you deserve to be shot as I do think we can all agree there is a distinct difference between any regular car and an ambulance.

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- Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I think the story goes that the ambulance was driving towards a car containing the patient, and the car containing the patient was also driving towards the ambulance.
  
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  - Akasazh@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It’s tragic but that is an infrastructure failure more than anything else.
    
    I’m my tiny country we have trauma helicopters for stuff like that. You should never get into your own car with stuff like that.
    
    Secondly how did it is to have a alarm line operator tell you to get into your own car to meet the ambulance half way. How did that work?
    
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    architect@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    In rural areas they Will communicate with both of you.
    
    Once again, move the fuck over. You aren’t the police.
    
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  - Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    That makes more sense. Thanks
    
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  - Calfpupa@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Then it’s an educational failure because they didn’t use emergency lights.
    
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    TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    Hey can you shut the fuck up and stop saying this? You don’t know that they didn’t use emergency lights, and it ultimately doesn’t matter either way. Someone died a preventable death because of people like you trying to police others’ behaviour.
    
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