Ambulance driving slowly with hazard lights on? (V dull)

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Is there a reason that an ambulance would drive slowly for a distance, towards a residential area, with only hazard lights on? Not on blues.
It wasn't heading towards the hospital, ambulance station or petrol station.
Surely if it was out of petrol or faulty it would stop?

Perhaps it's transporting a patient back home? With oxygen cylinder/drips etc and given all the speed bumps there may be on the road, makes sense to me

Transporting a patient with a neck or spinal injury.

Why would you assume its out of petrol or faulty. More likely someone being taken home on a stretcher who they dont want to be jiggled about too much.

Spinal injury?

Ah, didn't think of a spinal injury.
We wondered if it was a dead body .

Or a drip.

Saw a video recently where someone had made a hoax call about an infant needing CPR and given the wrong address.

Ambulance spent ages going up and down nearby roads and checking every house with the same number, driving slowly looking for people in distress.

Maybe some twazzock has decided to waste their valuable resource.

Honestly, OP, why would an ambulance drive slowly if it contained a dead body?

Wound requiring pressure to prevent bleeding out?

I don't know bard.
I was driving and pondering it with the dc's and we couldn't come up with anything else.

Looking for the right House?

It's because of a spinal injury. On the motorway you may see this with a police escort.

I would say spinal injury also.
But I was blue lighted in full labour. All I remember is the bloody speed ramps in the car park of the Children’s hospital. Made things much worse . Felt everything. Maybe the patient was in labour