Hi! > At one point in our local event (50,000 runners) an ambulance had to go onto > the running route to get at a casualty. It was travelling in the same > direction, at the runners' speed, with all blue lights. Still, within half a > kilometre, runners had collided with the back of it and had to have treatment > themselves. This is a vehicle nearly 3 metres tall. How do you think a car, > invisible to all but the runners in front, will cope? There would be > thousands (literally) of people unable to stop, pushing into those in front. > I suspect the car would be pushed over and many of those caught in the crush > would be seriously injured.
Indeed. > I think we can agree that there should have been proper awareness of which > roads would definitely be closed for whatever reason, so that the taxi should > not have been there in the first place. > > I certainly agree about the unfortunate couple needing hospital access. Indeed. I may even be convinced to drink some mead to that ;-). -- Boris
