CLASSROOM AND ON-THE-COURSE TRAINING OF EMS DRIVERS

As a Public Service the author was requested by the City of San Antonio to prepare and conduct a one week driver training course for EMS trainees. To data the course has been given to four classes and a total of 175 drivers. Up to August 1976 the San Antonio EMS drivers had accumulated over one million miles answering emergency calls without a body injury. The course consisted of eight hours of classroom theory followed by four days of on-the-course instruction in handling the Modulances in high speed cornering and emergency avoidance maneuvers. The trained drivers were smooth, confident, expert drivers who understood vehicle handling and what makes a driver lose control. As a result of this driver training experience the author has written a book, "High Speed and Emergency Driving Techniques" published in April 1976. /HSRI/

• Corporate Authors:

  American Association for Automotive Medicine

  801 Green Bay Road
  Lake Bluff, IL  United States  60044
• Authors:
  • Clark Jr, J M
• Conference:
  • 20th Annual Conference of the American Association for Automotive Medicine
  • Date: 1976-11-1 to 1976-11-3
• Publication Date: 1976

Media Info

• Features: Tables;
• Pagination: p. 168-176
• Serial:
  • Volume: 20

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Driver training; Emergency vehicles; High speed ground transportation; High speed vehicles; Medical services; Speed
• Subject Areas: Highways; Railroads; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00144167
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Research Institute
• Contract Numbers: DOT-HS-024-1-115
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 13 1977 12:00AM