The corridor of life, or the emergency corridor, is a lane for ambulances and other emergency vehicles moving in a traffic jam, between standing cars. The life corridor allows to shorten the travel time of rescue vehicles to the accident site, and thus - increases the chances of saving the lives of the injured. Check out how to make a corridor of life.

The corridor of life , in other wordsemergency corridor(emergency corridor), is a lane for emergency vehicles in traffic jams, between stationary cars, i.e. for the police, fire brigade, ambulance services, as well as for highway services, and even tow trucks and other services whose task is to clean up the accident site.

The corridor of life is especially important on highways and expressways, where the traffic of cars is very heavy and in the event of the slightest collision, gigantic traffic jams immediately form. Meanwhile, the victims of an accident cannot wait, because every second that flees away is at a premium someone's he alth, and even life.

The Police Headquarters calculated that in 2022 there were 32 705 accidents, in which 39 394 people were injured and 2810 were killed. Perhaps, if drivers knew what the corridor of life is and how to use it, the sad ones statistics would be slightly different.

Corridor to life - turn on your thinking. Every driver should see this video

On this occasion, the Ministry of Infrastructure has published a video that reminds you that drivers should efficiently slide to the sides so as not to block emergency services on the signal.

Corridor to life - how to make it?

When you are stuck in traffic and hear the signals of an oncoming fire brigade or ambulance, pull over to your edge of the road. If the motorway has two lanes, drivers on the left turn left and drivers on the other lanes turn right. In this way, a wide belt is created, through which the emergency services can very quickly reach the injured in an accident.

6 minutes - this is how much you can speed up the arrival of the ambulance to the victims of accidents, if you create a corridor of life.

Unfortunately, in Poland, they do not teach life in the corridor of driving license. Why? Instructors only teach students what it containsThe Highway Code. Meanwhile, there is no such provision in the code as "corridor of life". Besides, some schools do not prepare at all for driving on highways and expressways.

In Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and Switzerland, Hungary and Slovenia, life corridors have a legal form. There is a risk of high fines for not using them, e.g. in Germany you can pay about 700 euros for not leaving a place for an ambulance, and for driving along such a civil corridor over 3,000 euros. euro.

Work is underway in Poland to sanction the corridors of life.

Corridor of life and emergency lane

Some people ask why emergency services can't use the emergency lane? The emergency lane is often blocked, say rescuers. There can be many reasons for this.

A driver on an expressway may pull into an emergency lane while taking a break. It can also be forced by a flat tire, "boiled" with the engine, remains of tires and bumpers lying on the road.

In addition, the emergency lane is narrow, and sometimes it is not always present. For example, at bridges, narrowings, ascents and descents, such a dog is not always present.

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