Facts about Ambulance!

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• An Ambulance is a commercial vehicle used to carry sick and injured people to hospital for treatment.

• Modern-day ambulances are typically large automobiles on a van or light truck chassis with a maximum road weight up to 7.5 tonnes. (http://auto.indiamart.com/ambulance/)
• They are categorized into various sub-categories such as Emergency ambulance, Patient Transport Ambulance, Response Unit and Charity Ambulance depending on their functional use: 

1. Emergency ambulance – The most common type of ambulance, which provide care to patients with an acute illness or injury.
2. Patient transport ambulance – A vehicle, which has the job of transporting patients to, from or between places of medical treatment, such as hospital or dialysis center, for non-urgent care. These can be vans, buses or other vehicles.
3. Response unit – Also known as a fly-car, which is a vehicle which is used to reach an acutely ill patient quickly, and provide on scene care, but lacks the capacity to transport the patient from the scene.
4. Charity ambulance – A special type of patient transport ambulance is provided by a charity for the purpose of taking sick children or adults on trips or vacations away from hospitals, hospices or care homes where they are in long term care. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulance)

•  An ambulance's helpline number is 108.
• The name "AMBULANCE" written in front and back of the vehicle is laterally inverted like this:

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It is done so that when the ambulance is on its job, then while traveling over road, other vehicles could leave its way by recognizing it as an ambulance, by reading the letters "AMBULANCE" in correct form through the rear-view mirror.

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