{"id":767,"date":"2023-03-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ireportstlucia.com\/?p=767"},"modified":"2023-03-30T10:51:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T14:51:15","slug":"slfs-urges-motorcyclists-to-be-cautious-on-the-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ireportstlucia.com\/?p=767","title":{"rendered":"<strong>SLFS Urges Motorcyclists To Be Cautious On The Roads<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Saint Lucia Fire Service (SLFS) is urging motorists specifically motorcyclists to practice more caution when riding on the roads due to a high recording of the response to motor vehicular accidents.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deputy Fire Chief Ditney Downes says a total of two hundred and twenty-one accidents have been recorded so far for 2023 which were all serious accidents where persons were transported to medical facilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn terms of our responses to motor vehicle accidents so far for 2023, we have responded to two hundred and twenty-one motor vehicular accidents island-wide and these are very serious accidents where all of these accidents we responded to we transported persons to medical facilities. Generally, our ambulance responses for the year have been three thousand one hundred and eighty-one ambulance responses in total.\u201d he says.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The chief says when a comparison was conducted it was noted the number of motor vehicular accidents involving motorcycles has increased significantly. He urges motorcyclists to practice more caution when riding.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAn increase in number throughout the year when we do a statistical comparison of our responses to motor vehicle accidents we\u2019re seeing that there is an increase in the number of accidents involving motorcycles and we want to urge motorcyclists to be a bit more cautious on the road, I\u2019m not saying that every time there is a motor vehicle accident involving a motorcycle that they are wrong however I\u2019m just saying that it seems to be more frequent in terms of responding to such incidents.\u201d he continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Saint Lucia Fire Service is in the process of purchasing new extrication equipment to better respond to motor vehicular accidents. The extrication equipment will be used to extract persons trapped in vehicles from accidents, the new battery-operated equipment would only require one emergency personnel to operate which assists in the issue of lack of manpower.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat we realize is the traditional equipment that we use are very labor intensive, it takes maybe about three fire officers to move them, to operate them and we\u2019re trying to reduce that because we have a manpower issue. The demands from the public is growing whilst our establishment remains constant, so one of the ways we try to counter retract that issue is to move into more modernized equipment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photo: Media Stock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saint Lucia Fire Service (SLFS) is urging motorists specifically motorcyclists to practice more caution when riding on the roads due to a high recording of the response to motor vehicular accidents.\u00a0 Deputy Fire Chief Ditney Downes says a total of two hundred and twenty-one accidents have been recorded so far for 2023 which were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-social-issues"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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