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Old January 22nd 06, 01:58 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Dr John Stockton Dr John Stockton is offline
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Default Is it correct to use 999 in this case...?

JRS: In article , dated Sat, 21 Jan
2006 04:15:00 remote, seen in news:uk.transport.london, Mark Brader
posted :
David FitzGerald:
112 is the international standard emergency number. It works almost
anywhere in the world. ...


My understanding is that it is only a European standard. I'm confident
enough that it doesn't work here to try it -- and I've just confirmed
that it doesn't. If you can cite anything official saying that it is
a world standard, I'd be interested to see it.


But one would not expect a world standard to apply in an American
system, and that's what Canada uses.

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