Medic question

[McGherkin]

(2012-08-03 07:43)Ras Wrote:  

(2012-08-03 07:43)Ras Wrote:  I guess the only possible points of having a [MED] is basically to assist at crashes, helping tow if needed, making the scene visible to other road users and securing it by for example parking the marked car a suitable distance before the crash

And by getting to the scene faster, it helps prevent further crashes, because people don't notice the crash in time. A [MED] (or two) on scene could make it more visible, as mentioned in my quote. Though that might only be useful on highways and other dangerous places where its more hard to see whats coming ahead, but it's possible to prevent noobs from crashing into the scene at all kind of locations.

First vote for [MED] to have the role of securing a scene.

(2012-08-05 19:13)Tommer Wrote:  Why not open up some sort of accident response tag to the general people? Like a diluted [HwA] with a new name [AR] ? that allows users only caution / hazard / jointow / issue a parking ticket (without a chase system) / do general safety things

^Obviously the point of the tag is to make it an emergency vehicle so give them a circumstance when they can use a siren - eg on Jointow until they arrive at the scene.

While I don't see the point of changing the name, that's another vote for a unit to secure a scene.

(2012-08-06 16:50)Elmo Wrote:  As the roleplay element basically consists of parking the car and doing nothing, they may as well make themselves useful by, for example, doing traffic control.

Securing the scene before a Tow arrives and during the towing itself seems to be the only possible useful thing a Med unit could actually do in LFS. Ambulances/paramedics *do* actually control traffic to some extent if they're the only ones on scene (they're usually first to arrive), if only by parking in the road with emergency lights on - if people are going to roleplay anyway, I don't see why they shouldn't be useful while they do it.

And that's another vote for it to have this role. From a leader.

What I've been saying all along is a fourth vote in favour.

So who is against having a unit (whether it's called MED, RES, AR or something different) with the role of securing a scene?