"Well, here we go again Jeffrey. Another hoax call and a load of time wasted. I am getting sick of these tonight!" Dixie moaned on. They were coming towards the end of their shift which meant that the paramedics were tired and irritable.
They had just came back from a 999 call on Belmere Road as they had been told that a child had been ran over. However, when they arrived, all they found was a dolls head covered in sauce in the centre of the road.
"It really does make me wonder what goes through other peoples head sometimes." Dixie thought as she concluded the conversation about Belmere Road.
As the pair pulled over on a quiet road on the outskirts of Holby, they decided to sit and talk about some of the worst shouts that they've had to attend.
"Well..." Jeff started before taking a large gulp then carrying on with one of his most terrible experiences. "I always remember when that young lad got his hand trapped in the chopper and they couldn't save it. Talk about gory!" Jeff said disgustingly causing a shiver to run down his spine like someone had just walk over his grave.
"Haha, you think that's bad?" Dixie questioned. "That's nothing compared to the time when..." but Dixie was unable to finish as a shout came through the radio causing her attention to focus elsewhere.
"3008. Emergency 999 call to Belmere Road. Caller says that an elderly lady has collapsed on the road side." The person from control explained.
"Okay, 3008 all received and mobile." Dixie replied whilst fastening her seatbelt and clipping her radio back onto her belt.
The ambulance went flying through the streets of Holby like a rocket, dodging all the late night traffic as it headed towards Belmere Road. Dixie turned the ambulance into the familiar street once again and peered down the street. She couldn't see anyone and as she drove further down the street, the image didn't change: no elderly lady collapsed, no teenagers lurking about – no one at all.
"We should have known that this was going to be another hoax call when we heard the address," Dixie started. "Especially as it is half 10 and for some reason I don't really think elderly people will go out for walks at this time, definitely not in this neighbourhood!" Dixie shouted startling Jeff a little.
"Calm down Dix, if they call again we'll tell control to send another unit so they can deal with it ok?" Jeff suggested but his idea did not go down well with Dixie.
"Oh yeah, that's good! So now the hoax calls don't only waste one crews time but two now! No one should bother with them – especially when there are seriously ill people out there needing our help and we're stuck cleaning up dolls heads from roads! When I found out who keeps doing this..." Dixie shouted but was unable to finish as she was just so frustrated. She smashed her hands against the steering wheel before reversing the ambulance so that she could take herself as far away from this street as possible.
"Clear." Jeff said whilst looking out of his window to see if any cars were going to pass through the junction.
"Right, going across." Dixie informed as Jeff nodded his head in agreement, still staring out the window.
Suddenly, when they were half way across the junction, Jeff jumped out of his skin and pointed open-mouthed towards his window. A huge lorry was speeding directly towards the ambulance.
"Dix, swerve! SWERVE!" Jeff shouted as his partner tried her best to swerve but the ambulance was going too fast. The ambulance began to spin on the spot causing the scenery around them to go blurry. The lorry hit the back of the ambulance causing it to stop spinning and lurch forward violently. It skidded across the road sending sparks flying into the air causing cars all around to crash into barriers and cause a huge pile up. The battered ambulance finally stopped skidding and it came to rest on the edge of a ditch.
Cars all around were swerving and trying their best to dodge the chaos mounting up in front of them but it was all happening too fast and this whole disaster was turning into a major accident.