CHIANG MAI -- A one-minute video showing an ambulance carrying a patient trying to enter a hospital and being deliberately blocked by a pickup truck overtaken earlier has gone viral on social media.
The video was posted on Facebook by Chomrom Khon Kuphai Jangwad Chiang Mai club (club of rescuers in Chiang Mai province). The poster said the incident happened on Sunday evening.
A black Toyota pickup had intentionally blocked the way as an ambulance was manoeuvring to get to a hospital. The pickup driver also lowered his window to scold the ambulance driver.
The clip shows the ambulance travelling along a small road near the hospital, with its siren turned on. The ambulance overtakes the pickup, but later stops and reverses into a side street to make a u-turn and take another way to the hospital.
The overtaken truck catches up with the ambulance as it is turning and stops directly in front of it, blocking the way.
The ambulance driver tells the pickup driver that paramedics are resuscitating a seriously injured person in the ambulance and that he should make way.
The rescue club concluded its message with the advice that motorists should give way to ambulances.