I've just had a thought. How are sole responders in cars and on motorbikes going to legally meet the eight-minute target? If I remember my law correctly, VERA defines an ambulance as a vehicle which is constructed or adapted for no purpose other than the carriage of sick, injured or disabled people to and from welfare centres or places where medical or dental treatment is given. The Lighting Regulations define an ambulance as being a vehicle (other than an invalid carriage) which is constructed or adapted for the purposes of conveying sick, injured or disabled persons and which is used for such purposes. And Road Traffic Regulations only permit drivers to exceed the speed limit where the observance of the Speed Limit would hinder the use for the purpose the vehicle was being used. Now unless those laws have changed in the past two or three years, then an FRU car or bike would not be an ambulance and therefore should not be using blues nor speeding. That being the case, an ambulance would be the quicker vehicle to legally reach most scenes within the time limit. I know the Government said it was going to review the various laws after a paramedic was charged with speeding in 2003 (Ferguson, I think) while doing an organ transfer. Has it actually done anything? Or can we expect some police forces to ignore the law and allow FRUs to speed, while others enforce it and charge paramedics, jeopardising their careers?