If your car windscreen gets cracked or broken by a flying stone or by hitting a bump in the road, it’s inconvenient, and can put your car off the road until you can get it fixed. Imagine the impact on an ambulance of having a smashed windscreen while a patient is under treatment – if it’s an emergency, the patient’s life can be put in danger. The potential risk to life and limb is all the more shocking when, as happened in Birmingham recently, an ambulance windscreen was deliberately smashed while the paramedics were attending to a patient.
