Hayabusa will be a life-saver
By MCN Reporter
PARAMEDICS in Oxfordshire plan to reach casualties faster than ever - on a 194mph Suzuki
Hayabusa. The ambulance service is taking delivery of the world's fastest production bike, complete
with blue flashing lights and packed with life-saving equipment.
Two people will be specially trained by police riders to make the most of the 175bhp Suzuki.
The bike is being brought in to beat new guidelines which say ambulances must reach 95 per cent
of calls within 19 minutes. From 2001 that limit will be cut to just eight minutes for the most urgent
calls - such as heart attack patients - and the service fears that would be impossible with a
conventional ambulance.
John Nichols, chief executive of the Oxfordshire Ambulance NHS Trust, said: "The bike will help us
get to the really sick people much quicker." He added that the Hayabusa will come into its own
during the morning and evening rush hours when it is even harder for four-wheelers to get around.
But patients aren't going to be whisked to hospital on the back of a bike! Instead, paramedics will
give emergency treatment until the ambulance arrives. Now the race is on to raise the £15,000
needed to keep the superbike on the road and stocked with drugs.
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I'll bet the sportbike guy who raised his hand with this suggestion sh|t himself when it was approved!!!
Wouldn't alot of YOU like to raise money to keep your busa on the road and "stocked with drugs"? LOL, thought you would get a laugh from this...