Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-09-22 | Page 4 | What's the Hurry?

t 4 W Whai's I at I s t the r h e ir H Hurry 7 t T iS ME was when druggists were compelled to toj j lI i JL have a pharmacist sleep in their establish- establish ments The theory we was was that emergencies emer- emer 1 were to be met whether they happened Tat t night or in the day time This precaution no noc c longer seems necessary ro Hence we wonder i if we are n not t also pur- pur the same fallacious notion in believing that tha ambulances must ignore all precautions precautions precautions pre- pre cautions wh while le rushing to hospitals Monday Sri ai c rashed ash into a m motorist m t rist- rist 7 at at Eighth West and North Temple streets The driver of the car was thrown through windshield He suffered cuts and bruises S 'S but no one was killed t As the accident was explained the driver driver of of the car failed to see the emergency vehicle as tit t ran through a traffic light S J. J t t- Salt Lake City is using private ambulances 1 now because her own ambulance was ruined In Ina a similar crash Other accidents have been attributed at- at Jj to similar emergencies S 4 l In these days of motorized travel we sometimes some some- sometimes N times wonder if emergency vehicles cles do not ris risk S defeat of their own purposes by availing themi themselves them- them i jj selves of a lawful right to disregard S These vehicles are devised for for forthe the purpose of saying life by providing a- a for the sick and injured to hospitals The time difference nce between regular traffic and an emergency run is slight 4 The hazards of disregarding traffic signals and regulations are apparent Perhaps emergency emergency emergency emer- emer gency gency vehicles les could take a leaf out of the old j druggists druggist's book and reserve these risks for cases where the difference between life and death is a matter of splitting seconds which is rarely rarely the case At any rate this is a small t factor for the mayors mayor's safety committee to coni con- con i insider sider ider in its proper order It constitutes some som something some some- thing of a hazard for the motorist as well as the th helpless patient who is being hurried to a hos- hos itaI