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.
  • @RedditWandererEnglish
    5•25 days 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•25 days ago

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

      • @RedditWandererEnglish
        6•25 days ago

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

        We were discussing the unnecessarily large emergency vehicles.

        • @[email protected]English
          -1•25 days 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•24 days 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•24 days 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•24 days 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.