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Ambulance Attendance? 04/01/2016 at 00:38 #79553
gremlin604
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44 posts 		Hi everyone

I signed up to CTA alerts to get advance warning of any interesting closures on the Chicago Loop. And this evening Green Line trains were delayed due to a 'sick passenger' Just does this mean a medical emergency/ambulance attendance or does it literally mean travel sick passenger??

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Ambulance Attendance? 04/01/2016 at 01:32 #79554
RainbowNines
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272 posts 		I imagine American parlance will differ from British. We genuinely refer to people being ill or unwell, Americans often use sick in this context.

I can't speak for the "official line", but I was on a Northern Line train a couple of years back where a young chap fainted because of the heat. Driver stopped at Finchley Central and helped passenger off, where he was dealt with by the station staff. I would assume that a more serious case - a passenger heart attack or pregnant woman in sudden labour, wouldn't be so easily remedied, hence causing delays.

In any case, I shouldn't have thought staff would react kindly to being told a passenger was travel sick unless they were projectile vomiting all over the place!
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Ambulance Attendance? 04/01/2016 at 11:43 #79558
Danny252
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1461 posts 		I've experienced ~10 minute delays whilst waiting for an ambulance to attend a fainted passenger, but have equally come across delays of 2 hours whilst a passenger received medical attention on the train, their condition being bad enough that the medical staff didn't want to try moving them.
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Ambulance Attendance? 04/01/2016 at 14:27 #79564
Jersey_Mike
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250 posts 		The NY Times did an entire article about what the "sick passenger" delay implies.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/24/nyregion/a-hated-phrase-that-subway-riders-are-hearing-more-sick-passenger.html
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Yet despite the frequency of these delays, they remain a persistent riddle for many riders who have no idea what exactly the phrase “sick passenger” means.

Officials at the authority say the incidents often involve riders who have fainted or vomited. Other passengers might have had a heart attack or a seizure, or could be unconscious or even dead. A sick customer is not, as some surmise, a suicide on the tracks, which workers are instructed to announce as a “police investigation.”
As a rider the best thing you can do is get someone who looks sick off the train before they pass out and screw up the service.
Last edited: 04/01/2016 at 14:29 by Jersey_Mike
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Ambulance Attendance? 04/01/2016 at 18:13 #79570
benstafford
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88 posts 		In the UK it would be delay code VD passenger taken ill on train.

http://www.delayattributionboard.co.uk/documents/dag_pdac/April%202013%20DAG.pdf
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Ambulance Attendance? 04/01/2016 at 19:47 #79577
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368 posts 		" said:
In the UK it would be delay code VD passenger taken ill on train.

http://www.delayattributionboard.co.uk/documents/dag_pdac/April%202013%20DAG.pdf
Should have taken precautions.
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