Rachel, wake up and see the light. Can you not see the serious ramifications of finding ambulance driver Mike Ferguson guilty (He Says/She Says, June 4)?

The national newspapers were saying as there was no actual casualty on board, he should not have been speeding.

If that is the case, and it is applied to the emergency services as a whole, police cars and fire engines will have to answer their calls within the speed limit.

Emergency vehicles will have to sit at traffic lights with their blue lights flashing waiting for traffic lights to go green.

Who is to say what is or is not a routine call. Every call the emergency services receive is an emergency for someone.

I have been a professional firefighter for nearly 32 years and a driver for 28 of those years. As an emergency driver I am allowed to break certain laws of the road while carrying out my job.

Every time emergency services drivers respond to a call you could say we put others at risk by the speeds we travel at.

But what would you rather have — a service which arrives within a few minutes or one which gets caught up in the traffic chaos of London?

I appreciate you are putting both sides of the argument forward but can you see how this could escalate into something devastating for the public?

I very much enjoy your article every week. Please carry on the good work.

Steve Walshe Romany Rise Petts Wood