Emergency Vehicle Driving Techniques

Course overview

The final segment of the Emergency Vehicle Operations Course will introduce the student to actually operating an emergency vehicle under emergency response conditions. A number of important factors will be discussed, including the driver operators Capabilities, Safety and Adverse Driving Conditions, Basic Emergency Driving Maneuvers, and Crash Factors. The final segments of the course will draw the students attention to some fairly new concepts such as Due Regard, True Emergencies, Defensive Offensive Driving, S.I.P.D.E. and Aiming High. Although some of these concepts might sound strange, the student will appreciate the value of each of these concepts as they relate to the safe operation of all types of emergency vehicles.