RTC (Road Traffic Collision) Event

17/02/2011

On Thursday 17th February, the college was able to get some members of the fire, police and ambulance service to show us how they co-operate when dealing with an RTC that has multiple casualties. This was done to raise awareness of the dangers of dangerous driving, in Derbyshire alone there are 60,000 incidents of dangerous driving which involve serious injuries and fatalities, one third of this is young drivers who have little experience on the roads.

The Uniformed Public Services Students controlled what was happening such as keeping people off the roads, moving smokers away from the site, monitoring vehicles arriving and leaving the site and holding back the crowds. This was also done to help us with our assignment for responding to emergency incidents by showing us how the emergency services work together. An RTC was the best incident to use as each service was doing something all the time and this helped us to see what each service did when this was happening.

The video (above) I recorded shows the fire service having to remove the roof of one of the vehicles for the paramedics to attend the casualty stuck inside the vehicle. This shows us how the fire service and paramedics work together to ensure that casualties are rescue safely and quickly.

This also gave us an insight into the roles that the emergency services must carry out and it is also another option for a future career.

Link to Road Awareness information