In last week’s Sutton Guardian piece (Car Collision, February 19), you reported fire engines from Sutton, Purley and Croydon, an ambulance as well as Sutton police all attended a crash.
The article concluded “there were no injuries and no one was trapped”.
All these services feature regularly in discussions about cutbacks, lack of funding and pay cuts. I simply ask why five emergency vehicles were called to what appears to be a minor traffic accident.
Surely the first attender could have cancelled the others arriving.
Can our taxes afford to pay all the call-out fees paid to emergency personnel as well as tying up five emergency response vehicles for such an apparently trivial incident?
Perhaps this is an example of why cut-backs are needed?
CONCERNED TAXPAYER
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