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"Pediatrique" is not a word you want to read on an active EMS van, it means a kid is in there. Respect to him! V
Had no idea this was a thing. Never heard of this before.
@@cyrilio In french "Pédiatrique" refers to children services (Gériatrique for old people) but I don't think every EMS around the world specify on their truck in what field they are in, I wonder if it's a french or Eu thing.
@@yasu7494 I live in Denmark and we have an ambulance called Babylance big box truck in bright neon yellow colors
I know Hungarian ambulances have special vehicles for children, they're called Gyermekmentő in Hungarian language. They even have pink neonatal ambulance for smallest babies, that's the worst emergency response you can meet.
@Yasu 74 it's probably just a mainland Europe thing, in the UK we just use generic ambulances.
3:05 "SMUR PEDIATRIQUE", that means it is an extreme emergency EMS (SMUR) for a child...
Ooh God😟
Yikes, all the more reason that I hope they hurried and got there safely
Respect to that guy he did every thing he could
This is around Paris. Traffic jams do exist in France, especially during rush hour. This specific traffic jam was caused by the road work you see at the end of the video. Reducing the lane even for 50 meters can cause big traffic jams as cars from the blocked lane have to merge on other lanes, slowing down everyone.
The left lane was blocked by accident (red truck in front)
Paris traffic is about as reliable as LA. Also it's the second ring (A86)
@@Spido68_the_spectatoryeah the congestions in the A86 are horrible… worse than the peripherique around porte d’Italie
In France, for medical emergency response we have :
- Firefighter in their ambulance trucks as first responders in case of light medical emergency.
- Firefighter nurse in a marked car if there is need of a nurse intervention (like pain killer injection...), in addition to the firefighter first responders.
- SAMU in case of serious medical emergencency, they can have emergency MDs and nurses with them and more equipment in the ambulance.
- SMUR is operated by SAMU and refers to a mobile medical unit with advanced medical equipment that can provide intensive care like resuscitation.
I totally love when people are like that and just help because it is the right thing to do. I salute this man.
Plus he's imitating gestures used by police bikers and pretty well at that... I think some of the cars could confuse him for an undercover cop XD
Great guy indeed!
That´s why you should never stop to close to the car in front of you in a traffic jam. This leaves you some room to make space for the emergency vehicle.
I tend to apply the German "Retungsgasse"-rules for the Autobahn even in cities.
This happens quite often in Paris where regular people help spondaniously, sometimes for few minutes, sometimes longer. I myself had several occasions to help an EMS while going to work, even in city center where I will lead and block intersections to make it pass the red light safetly. I was always amazed that most of the people understand what you are doing and they stop even I don't have police uniform.
C’est bizarre, quand je vais à Paris, je vois surtout des chiens suivre le véhicule du SAMU au plus près, pour arriver plus rapidement à destination.
@@juliusv9078 Oui je suis d'accord, j'ai d'ailleurs été témoin d'un mec qui s'est encastré (très violement) dans un SAMU en moto suite un freinage d'urgence... Mais je parlais plutot des citoyens "ordinaires" qui prennent l'initiative d'aider le passage des véhicules d'ugence. Je l'ai même déjà fait quelques fois pour des policiers en voiture (avec leur remerciement).
Not sure if it's the same in France, but here in Spain the SAMU type ambulance is like the top tier emergency vehicle, having an actual doctor on board and the tools for ER type precedures. They are basically for the biggest emergencies where every minute counts, a pre-ER to get you alive to the ER. They are definitely heroes on wheels. And good in this motorcyclist for trying to assist in any way he can!!
It's the same in France. The ambulance could literraly stop on the shoulder for the patient to have an emergency procedure.
Usually, there is an emergency (can be intensive care too) doctor, a nurse and a driver in a SAMU vehicule
Location :
The video is shot on the A86 highway in the East of Paris.
A86 is the second or middle ring loop road / highway a few kilometers away from the inner loop road called "périphérique" that encircles the core city of Paris.
The video starts on A86, South of Val de Fontenay and North of Nogent Le Perreux mass transit stations, in the Northbound tunnel exit stuck between the RER tracks (in the "median") and the Le Perreux sur Marne cemetery on the right (East).
The starting point is approximately under the Western extremity of "rue du Bel Air" in Le Perreux-sur-Marne.
It continues Northbound on the A86 until the traffic jam clears, roughly at the location of the "rue du Quatrième Zouave" overpass in Rosny-sous-Bois.
Then the biker takes the exit to N302 or Boulevard Gabriel Péri in Rosny-spus-Bois.
The ride is roughly 4km.
If you want to find the precise locations on G Maps, just copy the entire line (id and location name) and paste it in Maps :
Starting point
RFVV+J7G Le Perreux-sur-Marne
Traffic jam clearing
VFFJ+73H Rosny-sous-Bois
Exit ramp at the end
VFGH+Q6G Rosny-sous-Bois
Hope this will satisfy the map nerds out there. 🤣
I didn't read the signs but I thought it was around there especially because of the rail track in the middle from 3:50, I think these are the RER E's.
@@noefillon1749 Yup, you're right, they are the RER E tracks.
I've double checked the list I wrote in my comment, it is the exact route.
6:55 In France, police bikers are trained to stand on their motorcycle, they learn to control the motorcycle with their legs and they can let go of the commands and make big gestures with their arms so that the drivers can see them and this civilian is inspired by it, he makes great gestures similar to what the police learn
This was not any emergency vehicle, it was a paediatric emergency vehicle, so not only was it an emergency, but it had to do with a child. This guy did good
What is the difference with a child exactly ?
@@allinix7intp They may be directed to specialized hospitals that may hold more specialized equipment as well as doctors that specialize in surgery for children (they tend to be harder to operate for any soft tissue operation, and anything bone related has to account for growth so that's another can of worms entirely that requires further specialization)
I actually did this once in Budapest on my bike. It was a regular rush hour afternoon and bumper to bumper traffic going outside the city. I came across a struggling ambulance, got in front, popped on my hazards, started to honk and split the way. It was basically instinct.
My brother once blocked an intersection so an ambulance could get through faster. He pulled his truck diagonally across the lanes so no one could go.
If you see a biker driving by so close to your car or truck you unconsciously try to create distance to not accidentally hit them. That alone helps a lot in addition to his waving hand. Respect to that guy.
6:10 I feel many instances of people not getting out of the way of emergency vehicles comes from the fact that most modern cars are basically soundproof boxes. The people driving them lose a certain sense of awareness when driving with the windows up and the stereo on. And mirrors? Some folk consider them just decorations.
I'm a bit (well, maybe a lot) old school. I tend to have a window at least halfway down on either side of the car so I can hear, as well as see (with my mirrors and eyes) what's going on around me.
This is why I am a strong supporter for everyone to ride a motorcycle for a few weeks (I also know this is not going to happen - hopeful wishing).
Before I started riding motorcycle, I always thought I was very aware of what's going on around me; oh boy, the arrogance!
Motorists don't see and also don't look out for motorcyclists. This teaches you as rider to be fully aware and anticipate every action each of the 8 idiots (sorry, drivers...) around you are going to take, being aware of that car about 5 vehicles ahead going slow in the fast lane, or doing dangerous lane changes, the driver back there approaching way too fast as well as that one on the side street trying to beat the red light. (And yes, you also get those irresponsible, show-off riders giving others a bad name/reputation!!)
This awareness is now also used when I'm driving a four wheeled vehicle and proved quite useful in identifying emergency vehicles, sometimes even before hearing them when the wind is blowing the wrong way. Also helped to identify emergency vehicles crossing (coming from side streets/roads) much earlier than I would a few year ago.
It is not so much the sound isolation that is the problem, it is rather that people are driving in a brain dead, autonomous (and/or self-centred) manner rather than being actively aware of their surroundings... (and I am also guilty of this sometimes)
This example of civil courage is showing that humanity still exists out there... This biker is a hero even if he doesn't want to be called this. He sure has done the right thing, even if he risked his own life in some situations.
Normally, if it is this busy in Paris, motorcycles avoid traffic by driving in between the left most lanes. This biker is actually driving slowly, many of them are doing 50 km/h+ while other traffic moves at about 20 km/h. So people are used to keeping a larger gap between lanes when they are driving in the leftmost lane. Maybe that's why the ambulance drives there as well this time. An ambulance often takes the hard shoulder as an alternative, but there are many places where there is no hard shoulder, especially on the ring road in Paris.
I really like the sirens in France, they are perfectly in tune: the police uses a perfect fourth interval, the ambulance a perfect fifth and the fire brigade uses a minor second. Great, isn't it?
Paris is a lovely city with a great vibe, but traffic sucks.
It is around paris ! there are A LOT of highways and national roads ending and starting from paris, the traffic jams can get really tricky and long
Respect to that civil, he just want help ... but its also very dangerous to drive so fast in a traffic jam between vehicles.
The gopro lens gives the impression of going twice as fast.
This is Paris area, this is traffic hell. Western Europe is busier than north or east Europe, like NYC vs Austin.
I really like your videos very much, you are a very likeable and sympathic guy! Greetings from Vienna /Austria 🙂
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Thank You 😎👍
@@IWrocker You are very welcome. Honestly! I do not know why there are always crazy people with stupids comments around... Best greetings
Friedrich, no offense, just to inform you. The word "sympatisch" in German is "likeable" in British English and "likable" in American English. Sympathic isn't a word in the English language.
@@zorrothebugSympathetic exists though, even though it doesn’t have exactly the same meaning, so I think he probably kind of understood what the commenter meant
it's in department 93 at the nord east of Paris, heavy traffic indeed during rush hour,
this SAMU is heading to Hospital "Avicenne" located in Bobigny, i have been there too many time as a kid, doing stupid thing, trying to do parkour, tony hawk and jackass stuff
Generally, in most of (at least western) europe the general rule is if there's a traffic jam or just a one way road and u hear an emergecy vehicle coming, u just make space for em till they have passed.
As for traffic jams... I'd say that they are to be expected if you are headed to major cities such as Brussels, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Paris, etc. I'm not certain but i guess it is because alot of people go to work in those major cities at the same time, which is one of the main causes of said traffic jams
Here in France people are instructed to get as close to whatever side of the road they are on - even stopping if that means they can't drive on without going back in the middle again. So this is the regular method yeah
Massive respect for that guy on the bike! On the subject of motorbike escorts through heavy traffic. You might want to look out a video on the Metropolitan Police Special Escort Group or in a slightly different vein the Blood Bikers both here in the UK
Idk for other countries but in Switzerland the rule is you split to let emergency vehicles pass in the middle
I actually remember when I was 15 I ended up in a hospital in France with a really bad skin infection, it was during a heatwave and they couldn't use air-conditioning in the hospital due to a specific virus that was going around at that time. I was also allergic to several antibiotics so I wasn't recovering all that well. After 5/6 days there I'd be transported back to my own country (the Netherlands) by plane but first by ambulance, of course there were major traffic jams and considering the burning heat was dangerous for me they had to turn on the sirens and eventually police escorted the ambulance I was in.
Even crazier is that I couldn't be put on a medical flight due to the traffic and so I was put on a regular boeing 707, I was lying on a stretcher placed on top of 6 seats, so 6 people had their flight cancelled last minute in order for me to be transported.
I really appreciate people like this that guide ambulances through this traffic because more often than not it's a life or death scenario.
The skin infection left me with damaged skin and lymph system in my left leg which then also ended up causing recurring infections in my foot and leg, it took years to recover a little bit but just a week of an aggressive skin infection can leave you with severe damage for the rest of your life unfortunately.
Just for reference: my skin felt and looked as if I had third degree burns and the lasting damage is similar.
I've gone unconscious from fever quite a few times during my hospital stays and I can genuinely say I could've died at 15, I genuinely felt that I was dying which was a scarily peaceful sensation, it would've taken only a couple more hours (maybe even minutes).. I'm so grateful for all the people that put in effort to help me.
Seeing a large group of people work together with immense intent and effort just to make sure another fellow human has their best shot at living a good life, is just heart-warming and sadly needed. I know these people are 'just doing their job' but I somehow want to believe that you don't usually get into a job like that if you don't already feel empathy for other people.
Very glad to read that they succeeded in their efforts.
Hopelijk gaat alles goed en veel gezondheid toegewenst.
That tumb up in the end is so epic!!!! 🤩
I'm touched. I wish that, if (hopefully never) one of my loved one's is in desperate need of help, that a true hero steps in like this.
I just wonna seize the opportunity to say thank you for your interesting videos. It's exciting to see my homeland from an American's (New Mexico if I saw right) point of view.
Stay healthy my friend. Take care.
The Opel station wagon you pointed out, is what we got as our last Commodore, once production ended here. We had them for a couple of years. Wagon and hatch. Diesel and petrol. FWD and AWD. Still had access to the GM 3.6 V6.
Had a bit of Australian development.
France has been known for having congested traffic for several decades, particularly on roads and highways in the vicinity of Paris.
Yea it is right. Euro countries have their different way of doing things. In some countries is already a cultural thing. Where I live (Switzerland) they changed the law recently, when In a highway and you hit slow traffic / stop and go traffic, vehicles must follow automatically this procedure: vehicles on left lane they must pull to the left and vehicles on right lane must pull to the right, leaving space in the centre for potential emergency vehicles. Regardless if they coming or not. Some stretches have emergency lanes that aren’t occupied with traffic so this is how people must behave accordingly by the law, In places where there aren’t emergency lanes.
Hey thanks for your videos. Anyways it's just regular traffic here around Paris. No doubt this motorcyclist is a great guy ! These kind of things can happen every day right here. Come on by to see this ✌️ Big up man
What a Legend!
6:56 In Italy the ambulance usually has a reserved lane on the right, so everybody is supposed to stay out of that (if you don't, you are HEAVILY fined).
in Greece you are supposed to always leave clear of the right shoulder of the road. in Athens because of traffic sometimes police cars becomes the emergency vehicle with motorcycles police units clearing traffic. IO try to find a couple for you to react to.
Try what he's doing in Australia, and you'll be in strife. Authorities here don't take kindly to common sense. You'd be charged with some form of hindrance or the like, being a non-emergency vehicle.
Most of Europe do split the middle, which to me makes great sense, as there's usually room both sides to shift over. In Australia, it's move to the left, but having some of the worst drivers in the world, many won't let you change lanes until they finally work out that there's a reason for it. I believe the Europe style lane split should be adopted world wide.
It's a section of A86 close to the train station Val de Fontenay, in the eastern suburbs of Paris.
it's not a bad trafic at all in France, just every peripheral road around city is like this when people go or come back from work, it's hours of traffic jam everyday here 😅
What a legend 🤣👏👏👏
That was super cool. Good work by the biker 👍👍👍👍👍 🙂
This is on the A86 at Paris between the A4 and the A3.
This is a standard daily que.
Oh ok, I sent this video in a comment on the video of the Belgian ambulance in Paris escorted by police motorcycles, I didn't see that you had already reacted to this one, I'll look this video :)
There's some absolutely crazy clips of motorcycle police escorting ambulances in Paris. Well worth watching.
Oh boys, when they passed by Fontenay sous bois, I have flashback of taking the A86 every day to go to Creteil....😵
The way you're supposed to clear the road in denmark goes like this:
Left lane (passing lane cars) go left, right goes right. If there are 3 or more lanes then left goes left and everyone else right.
This is ABSOLUTLY INACCEPTABLE!! Why is there no rescue lane formation in advance? Why are trucks on the middle lane in a traffic jam?
Police in Germany would rip your ass open for such behaviour. (sadly we still see equal szenarios here too...)
This situation is easily avoidable by not being a brain-dead idiot and making space WHILE a traffic jam is still forming.
No motorcyclist has to risk his/her live to safe a patient, I can not believe my eyes!
Although haven't seen them for a while in Australia, is motorcyclist paramedics
Peugeot wagon is the Peugeot 308 😊👌
In Tallinn in main streets are bus lines where can drive buses and taxi + emergeny like ambulance vans , firefighters truck and police = it help a lot because buses not ar that much = every 3 until 10 minutes and then emergeny vehicles ride on city 120km/h ( 75 mph ).
That was terrific.
It's on the parisian "périphérique" well known for hard traffic
No it's the A86, the second or middle ring / loop road, not the first or inner ring / loop road called périphérique.
There's quite a difference, the A86, as its name implies, is a highway, with highway rules.
The périphérique, which is the first or inner ring road is classified as a special boulevard even if it looks like a highway.
It has different rules : entering traffic has priority over traffic already on the périphérique, the opposite of a highway.
The right most lane is the entry / exit lane and continuing vehicles should not drive on it, contrary to highway rules once again.
Check the recent comments under this video, I listed the exact points of the video with coordinates.
W biker.
I love these types of people :)
6:20 it's not a wagon, it's the Peugeot rival to the Volkswagen Golf (Peugeot 308 II here). The wagon version is longer and has a distinct back design :)
Also, those mini van - looking vehicules like the Dacia Lodgy you saw are called " monospace(s) ", a category invented by the USA, made popular in Europe via the Renault Espace in the 1980s, but quickly running out of steam as it succonbed to SUVs in the 2010s. They are closer to normal cars than the "ludospace(s) " (more civilian version of vans like Fiat Doblo or Ford Tourneo, which in general bare the same name), a category that always was rather small.
4:00 Le Raincy direction on the sign that’s my city lol
I see a lot of comments with an American point of view.
As an European I'd like to inform you that beside his good intentions which I appreciate and applaud, he didn't do much.
People are eager to see where the sound of the ambulance comes from and are ready to open corridor for it...
It is something that take very serious!
Turned out fairly well in this scenario. But actually its very dangerous. If you think about the video you saw of motorcycle cops directing traffic in Netherlands, and the amount of safety sirens, lights, whistles, highvis colours, communication and extreme amounts of training they have to coordinate it.. its very dangerous to just do it on a highway as a civilian. But it was all in good faith and we commend this man for his efforts.
This is how my daily commute in London looked like :D Filtering as we call it is good fun. Obviously rather dangerous as anyone can suddenly move, change lanes or throw something out of the window but at least it keeps you on your toes.
I remember similar video, with police bikers escorting Belgian ambulance transporting a child urgently from Brussells to Paris in bad Parisian traffic. They did excellent job, even tapping driver's hoods and windows without stopping to force them out of the way. Definitely one of the best emeregency videos ever.
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Ur point on traffic in France is absolutely correct. Big cities often have really bad traffic. And the worst time for traffic is during holidays especially in the summer. This is because during the summer, a lot of French ppl like commuting from the north to the south so it’s not unusual to see 10s or sometimes even 100s of km of stop and go traffic. Furthermore, the way the highway and main routes r designed make it so that many big cities r a bottleneck for traffic as they’re designed as hubs. For Paris it’s particularly bad as many highways dump into the Paris ring road resulting in millions of vehicles using it every single day.
A great reaction....Great analysis....In France we are proud about our emergency ambulances, named S.A.M.U which are number 1 of the most quick in the world!👍Crazy peoples, not only on the road, but with helicopters too....And, with the police, and the firemen, they make a great job! (Even if i don't like the police so much😂)....2 years ago they saved my life! The problem is the time you need to call them on phone😢But, once you called them, they're here in maximum 10 minutes, fantastic peoples....Peace from France ✌️
If you are interested in stuff like that check out the Netherlands ambulance bikes... They have amazing skills in getting the ambulance thru everything.
What a great act of citizenship ! In France car drivers are not as keen as they should be to let the flashing vehicles pass.
Ambulance drivers can go really fast on trafficless straight small 2 lanes/ways roads at night in rural France, I tried to follow one once and I gave up after hitting 140km/h (85 mph), so the ambulance was probably around 160km/h (100 mph). Ambulance drivers have titanium balls and great skills.
Great effort to potentially save a life, but doing this not being a police officer, he took a very high personal risk. If an accident had occurred during the whole operation, even if it hadn't been his fault, he could have ended up in DEEP legal trouble.
Your com is like how to show you're a coward without saying you're a coward
@@valentin5205 nothing to do with being a coward or not. The thing is, this guy was, technically, breaking the law. He did it in order to help, but if things had gone south, you bet it would have been held against him.
Not saying he shouldn't have done what he did. But he certainly did enter a high personal risk, there's no way to deny that.
pas dutout, tu roule 15min en region parisienne t'as 150+ motards et scoot qui te double en allant 2/3 fois plus vite que ça, il n'as rien fait d'extrêmement dangereux ou qui pourrait le mettre dans quelconque problème légaux
Perhaps you could go back a bit in time and view "The liver run" in London. It is quite long at about 25 minutes but is amazing to watch. The picture quality isn't brilliant due to the age but still worth it if you like real life drama.
It's just a situational thing, depends on where there's space to get over
I’d like to know the ambulance driver took his number plate and sent him a thank you.
All they probably saw was a motorcyclist who was flashing his lights because he was impatient and wanted to pass them. I really don't see him doing anything that would have helped the ambulance
I used to ride my bike (BMW K100) like that through traffic; it's fairly standard practice in some countries. It doesn't feel as dangerous as it probably is but I couldn't do it now because you need younger reflexes. On the whole, the regular drivers were used to it; your biggest problem is people changing lanes without looking or the odd knobhead who will deliberately tighten a space. I was working for a courier company at the time and everyone's bike had scrapes on the paniers from clipping cars or wagons. Never had to create a space for an emergency vehicle though.
93 DÉPARTEMENT, ÎLE DE FRANCE /PARIS SAM 93
He push people on the left 'cause accelerator is in his right hand.
You should watch a police ambulance escort in france!
In Europe, drivers are obliged to form a so-called emergency lane in the event of a traffic jam, i.e. if there are two lanes, the left lane must move further to the left and the right lane must move to the emergency lane. If the motorway section has more than two lanes, all lanes other than the overtaking lane (far left) must move to the right.
Anyone blocking the emergency lane or driving in it must expect heavy fines.
I'm not sure of the location, but it looks a lot like the "périphérique", a generally faster way to avoid Parisian traffic by circling around the city. The 93 on the ambulance is the code for a department called "Seine-Saint-Denis", adjacent to the northeast of Paris.
The biker has an "Airbus" key-chain, a large French aerospace/defense group.
It's the second ring ( A86)
@@Spido68_the_spectator Thanks for the precision :D I couldn't tell.
@@IronFreee the Paris ring road is much more cramped, doesn't have shoulders and certainly not a railway running through the middle as seen in the video :p
Top job to the escort...
This guy should become a motocyclecop! There were some realy tight and dangerous spots on his way through the traffic jam.
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I think something you should react to is hurling (irish sport) Its not well known but is a fun sort.
I think this is in PAris, the ring roads around Paris can get very jammed
Can you react about special forces?
I know a lot of TH-camrs already did that but i want your reaction as well.
For example, this is my favourite video about the GIGN:
French GIGN | National Gendarmerie Intervention Group - "S'engager pour la vie"
And this one is a bonus one:
GIGN - French Gendarmerie Elite Unit
I think it would be a good idea if every ambulance / fire brigade had a motorcycle with signal lights and siren as a companion or ahead vehicle.
10:50 That was not construction, that was an accident. Probably a small colision on the left lane, they're pretty common to be fair. Thoses orange trucks were higway safty services.
In France, our highways are managed either by regional authorities or by private compagnies under state supervision. Thoses authorities/compagnies are responsible for maintenance and safety on their roads, and when there is an accident, they send those orange (or yellow) trucks to block the lane, to ensure that the road is safe for other user and to give space for emergency vehicule on the crash site if needed. The red truck was a firefighter truck, probably here just in case, but the accident didn't look too bad
Now that was very impressive work by the biker. amazing to see how effective his quick thinking paid off
Great behavior 👍👌
It would be cool if some day there was something like a high speed, self driving Segway that could go ahead of ambulances and do this.
I have a policeman friend who did emergency medical assistance on a motorcycle in Paris.... he had 3 accidents a year on average... Only refusals of priority, there are still people who imagine having priority over an ambulance with screaming sirens ...
where i come from we do like that who in the left lane take all the way left and who in the right lane take all right , the midle of the road to the anmbulans . its much safer
for every body and quiker for the anmbulans .
He is most definitely not allowed to do all that, but I'm sure it was much appreciated, and would not have been reprimanded for it.
Yay, French chaos XD
Nice job from the biker
I didn't saw the whole video but to me it was not clear so far what he actually achieved.
I don't think the first guy made a difference. The traffick didn't move because of him. They move because of sirens. You can see cars already moved aside. He is in trucks blind spots.
Sad the biker had to step in to make them move but I’m glad they were there. Who knows what would happen with that level of traffic and stupidity from others
Framing is a thing, though. I'm not that sure the motorbike pilot helped in any way, really. He's just going through the lanes where only a motorbike can fit, and in the tunnel, the cars simply can't _get_ further apart. If _anything_ is persuading people to get out of the way of the ambulance, it's certainly not a private bike splitting lanes making wild gestures at cars. It's the ambulance's alarm lights and sound. Biker just went to work more quickly and decided to frame the video with him being a "hero" instead. :P (I'm kidding, he's actually trying to help. Just not sure how much of an impact the private bike actually has, since car drivers usually just get angry at bikers splitting lanes if they react to them at all.)
Think the ambulance let him through so there wouldn't be another casualty.
Every country does it differently. The DACH countries (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) do have a unique system: the emergency "strip" is created right of the leftmost lane. So no matter how wide the road is you will always have one row of cars off to the left side of the emergency vehicle. The rest will pull to the right.
The problem is that Germany sees thousands of "passing by" drivers everyday, from all 7 neighbour countries and beyond. A lot of them foreign truck drivers. The problem is how are you supposed to educate people that only cross your country on how they should proceed in an emergency. It's also not the most basic or obvious system imo.
By law in Europe trucks must NEVER travel in left side lanes so very many trucks occupy the right lanes, making space hard to get foe cars, so best option is cars to left trucks to right leaving middle space free for emergency vehicles be they ambulance, police, firetrucks....
Aaand thats not true. They can travel in any lane they want in many countries in europe unless especially told otherwise.
@@lknowledge are you talking about the trucks or the emergency vehicles?
@@andreferreira4277 trucks. Yeah, I wish that they wouldn't be allowed on the left lane but...
@@lknowledge it depends on the country. Some countries emforce their laws more than other. I gotta say i've never seen a truck on the left lane where i live, usually they get a ticket sooner or later
@@lknowledge OK I extrapolated from rules applied in the countries I have travelled in. Sorry to expand to all....
You may like to check out "Chris Martin EMS" YT channel ... He's a paramedic in the UK who uploads some of his blue light runs with either voiceover or caption commentary.