Ambulance hits Oregon cyclist, rushes him to hospital, then sticks him with $1,800 bill, lawsuit says
www.oregonlive.com
The cyclist, who suffered a broken nose, was initially treated at the scene by the ambulance driver.
    • @FireRetardantEnglish
      7•1 month ago

      The size of a country shouldn’t impact urban areas that much. Cyclists aren’t biking from california to florida on a daily basis, they are biking from their home to their job, gym, or groccery store. Your country is not too big for bike lanes, you’re city planners are just wastefull.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•1 month ago

        Oh I don’t disagree, just a fair point, it wouldnt make any sense in rural areas, which is 97% of the USA landmass lol

    • @RedditWandererEnglish
      5•1 month ago

      Which makes my point. Japan has 300+ people per square km, almost 10x as dense as the US. They still put out fires and carry sick people.

      • @[email protected]English
        -3•1 month ago

        My point is it’s much easier to have localized support when there isn’t miles between buildings lol

        • @RedditWandererEnglish
          6•1 month ago

          Oh I didn’t realize you were making a strawman argument.

          We were discussing the unnecessarily large emergency vehicles.

          • @[email protected]English
            -1•1 month ago

            Is it a straw man when I am saying the majority of America is rural and therefore urban-specific fixes for this issue can’t fully apply in a country as large as the USA as it can for some the size of our smallest states

            • Tlaloc_TemporalEnglish
              2•1 month ago

              There’s still miles of countryside between cities in the Netherlands, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, and Denmark. Many of Canada’s cities have fantastically walkable neighborhoods and light train services, and Canada has even more unreachable rural areas than the Sates. Urban solutions are almost completely unaffected by the size of the rural areas.

              These solutions can all happen in individual cities and even towns. How many hours of car driving away the next urban center is doesn’t affect where parking is placed, or zoning density, or where the highways are routed, or how fast the busses are, or whether a light train could be viable.

              • @[email protected]English
                1•1 month ago

                I’m not even disagreeing that these are good solutions, it was more in response to saying we didn’t need emergency service vehicles lmao

                • Tlaloc_TemporalEnglish
                  2•1 month ago

                  You don’t need giant EMS vehicles is cities. I bet 95% of EMS vehicles in large cities never leave city limits. Even if absolute units of EMS vehicles are somehow necessary for rural service (I doubt that), smaller, safer vehicles could easily service urban areas.