On Feb 5, 7:56*pm, (Alan Braggins) wrote:
In article op.uov5p4nehaghkf@lucy, Duncan Wood wrote:
On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:09:00 -0000, Roland Perry *
wrote:

In message , at 17:44:07 on *
Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Alan Braggins remarked:
Elsewhere in the report he says that it is green and yellow down the
side, red and yellow check to the rear end, and that it displays the
word ambulance (in unspecified colours).

http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/ambulance/dcp01118.jpg

The description of the vehicle as marked "in bold red and green *
colouring"

I suppose you could interpret the vehicle pictured above as "White and *
Yellow" with "Red and Green markings", but it wouldn't be my most *
intuitive way of expressing it.

Yup, most of us would refer to it as an ambulance:-)

So does the report of course. *The word "ambulance" being in bold red on
the back and bold green on the front might be what was being referred to
in that bit of the description. (Assuming the back of the CR-V involved
has similar coloured lettering to The A-class in Roland's photo.
Possibly "red and yellow check" actually refers to a similar pattern to
the photo too. Not that it's relevent.)-

I would take "ambulance" to mean a vehicle which carries sick or
injured people.

The word "ambulance" on this vehicle more likely relates to the fact
that it belongs to the ambulance service, just as it would if it was
written on a bicycle or a building. (And such buildings or bicycles
would need to be treated with appropriate respect, and not
obstructed.)

This was evidently an ambulance service vehicle carrying a paramedic,
despite the URL implying that it was carrying an injured person and
the article referring to it as an ambulance.