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This video is 5 years old and originally posted by the father (camera man) of this child. Air transport was NOT an option so road transport was needed. It is good to see how most of my fellow dutch men are responding to the ambulance, also most police men who where blocking the intersections did not know who/what/why just a call to go to a specific place and an ambulance is coming that can not be stopped. This is the result.

Wow, just wow. This is not the President of the United States that needs to be rushed to the hospital. This is 'just' a unknown baby. Yet all streets are blocked and everyone working together to be as fast as possible. In a system that the parents don't need to pay millions of euros for this healthcare and escort, but simply covered by the basic insurance. I love this country

Was a few years back. I can tell from the construction works on that route. The father of the newborn replied later that his child survived and is recovering just fine.

I work at this hospital and this occurs several times a month. Great work from law enforcement in Rotterdam.

This is not unusual in Europe. This also works across countries. Typically “European Social Responsibility” ❤. I remember a case 40 years ago when a German Starfighter flew across half of Europe to deliver medicine to a sick girl and save that kid's life. It was quite an intense affair and is now known as "The Jessica Case". It's something that makes you proud to be European.

Honestly as a Dutch citizen I am proud to say that this is (also my) tax money well spent!

I live near Erasmus MC / Sophia Child Hospital... I see transports like this couple of times a year. Goosebumps every time again.... I bow for all the Paramedics and our Police force... Seeing all these people fighting for the life of one. And remember, this ambulance ride doesn't make the patient's family bankrupt.... 🧡🇳🇱

The level of organization and the determination to save a young child. I can't think of a better illustration of what the word "civilization" means.

if nothing else does, this is something that can restore one’s faith in humanity. never seen anything like it honestly. Well done.

24 Individual Police Vehicles stopped traffic and around 50-60 Police officers shut down that Route. It should have taken 17 Min. In normal traffic to drive that route. They did it in 7.23 Min. This was insane. They got as much escort as Presidents do.

For those "Why not use helicopter" This is a freakin MICU. 'Mobile Intensive Care Unit' it's used for when the patient isn't able to be air lifted. Ofc they would have used a helicopter if it was a option, way easier and cheaper

For most non-Dutch this looks like a hugh deal but 'we' are given actual driving lessons and the rules regarding the road, emergency vehicles and police signals are part of that 'education'. I always watch these vids with great interest.

Proud to live in the Netherlands. Respect to all who are serving in police, ambulance and fire department ‼️‼️ You deserve more respect from who you are serving‼️‼️

This gives me shivers, the coordination and organisation behind all this to save a life is just amazing. The effort and work to do all that closures is great to see… wish they would do things like that in the U.K.

One life & all the resources, co-ordination & skill of a dedicated authority to make the probability of survival paramount. It is doubtful that any other nation outside of Europe will go to such lengths; truly phenomenal !

I take my hat off and bow for all these fine officers who try to help save a life.

As a former police officer this is the first time I've ever seen this happen and it is a tremendous amount of work for the police to block off a city of this size. The police and ambulance that set this up did a extremely safe run to the hospital for the newborn. Congratulations to the citizens and police for obeying the rules of traffic law to get this ambulance safely to the hospital ❤❤❤.

was die Polizeidort geleistet hat ist einfach klasse.

My mother 20 years ago was part of a team of emergency night doctors here in Lisbon/Portugal. One night, she was on call and at 2am roughly, the cellphone rang. She had to go pick up something as quick as possible. She knew a new road was constructed and approached a police car near the entrance of that road. Explained in no more than 15 seconds what was happening. She was escorted by the police in front to the hospital she needed to be. Again, this happened 20 years ago, in Portugal.

This is common practice in Rotterdam when the ambulance service asks for a guided transport. Almost every available police unit clears a junction appointed by dispatch. In some cases you do see a guided transport only with officers on bike and/or cars. That depends on the time they have to clear the route to the hospital

There are a couple of similar escorts from the UK and Ireland where they do things slightly differently using police Motorbikes as a rolling escort, jumping ahead to the next road junction each time, handy when you do not have such a large police force and almost as effective using just a handful of bikes. When it comes to saving childrens lives forces will often go above and beyond what might be expected of them

What puzzles me most is how well organized this is, and how FAST they must’ve organised and block all traffic in time with so many police officers. Just wow. I’m Dutch, but had no idea…

They did a great job!!! so proud of them for blocking all traffic making way for the ambulance to get through. I wish the USA would do that too, getting the critical to the hospital asap.

I really like these "Spoedbegleiding" (="speed escorting") videos from the Netherlands. Giving me goosebumps and a warm feeling in the heart area every single time. There is another concept where the intersections are not blocked by hundreds of policemen but 2 or 3 motorcycles rushing in front of the ambulance. Pure beauty to watch! Ik houdt van Nederland

You need to check out the videos when the motorcycle squad is clearing the roads for medical emergency transports......with cameras at their helmets.....these are incredible.

This is impress to see. They absolutley know what they do and did a amazing job!

This is amazing. Wait who is cutting onions around me?

I have seen a few comments wondering how the child is doing, and so I looked for and found a statement by the father, here it is translated by google, with a few translation corrections from me: "This is about our son!! How super cool to see that they filmed that! Our son had to go to Sophia because of a previously known congenital defect. We were actually going to give birth in Sophia, but this boy still wanted to become a Groningen resident... :p and so after his birth we rushed to Sophia for further treatment. After 4 weeks in the hospital, we have now been home for 2.5 weeks and the little man is doing quite well. We had already heard that they would shut down everything to get him to the hospital as quickly as possible, but to actually see it like this is very cool. It gives us jitters and emotions again. Blessed that we live in such a country where this is so well organized!" The father has provided an update almost 3 years later saying that the boy is doing really well.

I've only seen roadblocks like this when there was an escort for a president or something like that. It's so amazing.

As a father who recently lost his newborn daughter in this very hospital, this video hit me hard. Thank you to all the police offers and citizens for making this possible. 🙏🏻

Most heads of state get less of an escort and clear roads when they visit the Netherlands! This keeps being the most impressive escort I have seen

Really, really nice to see! This must have required the coordination of 100-150 police officers and half as many police vehicles (maybe even more?), and it all worked like clockwork, so obviously something that they practice regularly. Well done!

Fijn om te zien hoe de Nederlandse politie en ambulance diensten samen werken. Mocht fijn zijn moesten ze zo'n dienst ook in mijn land opzetten voor urgente en medisch noodzakelijk transport.

Pretty impressive coordination. It makes the route faster, but also a lot safer when intersections are completely blocked off...

The transports like this are very common over here in the Nethelands. Most of the times there are 3 officers on a motor. 1 officer that stays in front of the ambulance and the 2 other officers clear the road in front of the ambulance and the officer who guides the ambulance.

I had such an emergency transport to my rear once. Same entrance into Rotterdam, but this transport was coming in from the south. At the first traffic light (red) a police officer waves me through, while the light is red. So basically upon direct instruction from a cop I run a red light. Huh?? Upon the second traffic light, also red, I'm again waved through. Wait, what? At that point it dawns on me that I'm part of the traffic in front of an emergency transport that needs to be cleared. That's a first for me. Between the roundabout at the off-ramp of the A16 all the way to the Erasmus Hospital there are at least 10 junctions, if I recall them correctly, and at each one there was a stopped patrol car, a stopped police motorbike or a stopped police van and a policeman or policewoman hand-gesturing me and all the cars behind me to continue on despite the red light. It felt strange to deliberately run a red light at the direct instruction of the police. Being directed to do that 10 times in a row was downright surreal. I don't expect to _ever_ get from the outer ring into to Rotterdam city center that quickly again.

Just seeing this, we often forget how much the police are actually doing for us. Idk about others but whenever I see the police, I do get that sense of safety. I guess that's a pretty good but also blessed thing to be able to feel

When looking at these videos I am always thinking of my son that had to do such a journey, about 100 km when he was two hours old. He is now 29 and well. I am so thankful for everything that was done for him, and us.

I've helped out many times on these transports, it's well used in Holland!

very nice to see aware drivers who respond and move over

The child in question had a condition that was known before birth, it would need special care in Rotterdam's Sophia Child's Hospital were they specialize in this sort of stuff. But the mother went into labour earlier then expected and the child was born in the hospital in Groningen. I'm gonna guess this was filmed from the seat of a regular ambulance (as support vehicle), with the newborn child in a mobile ICU unit (based on small truck chassis) driving behind it. Air transport in a helicopter is not an option as they don't have room for the equipment to keep the child alive during transport. Also if something happens to the child on route you want to be able to pull over, have a stationary workplace to save the childs life instead of having to hover and deal with turbulence or wait to land somewhere.

Driving an ambulance for all that distance is no mean feat, great that they can roll our the red carpet in Rotterdam like this! Hope the baby is a happy 5yo now watching this with their parents.

A colleague of mine had the same with his young son. The ambulance was in front of them and they followed a few minutes later in their own and where completely confused why traffic was such a mess in Rotterdam…. :-)

Well done by all, hats off. Thanks for this video that’s restoring my faith in the normally bloke that makes things happen.

Amazing how they work together. Team work . All the best for the child 🙏🙏🙏

I am proud to be a Dutch woman and YES people stop and listen to the police. I workes in Erasmus hospital and the police do absolute good work. The Netherland is a good country to live in. Bless you all Police, Nurses and ambulance personel.

Drove this bit quite a few times, just this bit can take 20 mins easy. If it's REAL busy, a lot more.

Mes respects à l'ensemble, GREAT JOB THIS DAY I love it Thanks to all of them

Yep they did an awesome job! Congrats to them n that babe made it safely n quickly to get proper care n the ambo drivers too in their driving n care.

As a parent it makes me f***ing cry to see how so many people work hand in hand to ensure the safety of the most precious little thing. My prayers go to the little one and the parents. I hope everything turned out well.

Very familiar terrain here - both by car and on bicycle. I live here. This was a quiet time of the day from the looks of it; still - very nice teamwork!

The worst part is that more often than not, people are complaining about roads being blocked because they are now gonna be home 10 minutes later. Wonder if they'd still complain if they knew what was actually going on.

Always enjoy watching these video’s regardless of how old they are, 👍👍👍

Me sitting on my toilet in the dark at 5am. "Cmon man save that baby save that baby!"

Some people would think that this level of urgency occurs only for a Head of State, without knowing that it is simply for a New Citizen.

Amazing, my faith in humanity has been restored🙏

Dutch Police really know their way when it came to guide VIP and emergency transport. I hope the little one survived !

4:42 , my father is the architect of the small tower in the middle its called the scheepmakerstoren. The police did a great job blocking everything!

The Dutch emergency responders are a state-of-the-art example of this kind of work. Americans take note: ZERO direct costs for the patient, for either the transport or any part of the treatment/medication. It's all covered by the mandatory (and government-subsidised/regulated) health insurance. All Dutch citizens pay reasonable insurance rates that cover these exceptional occurrences. High-cost services which you also might need sometime. You never know.

Unbelivible, amazing, such a god job by everybody. Dutch people can be proud of their police officers.

Good Job,Thanks

This reminds me of a similar escort in London a fair few years ago which also featured on a program called "Police, Camera, Action" which featured the police doing a blue light run from Junction 7 of the M11 motorway into a Central London hospital. It was a liver for a donor patient.

Great job to the colleagues of the Rotterdam Police Force and the driver of the Ambulance. Our trip without the blockage would have been 2hrs, 30min.

That is so wonderful this Teamwork. So cool

Very well organised

Having been an international trucker for 50 years I was regularly in Holland as Ireland and Holland have great trading and cultural relations , I absolutely love the Dutch people but surprisingly also the Dutch police…First class professionals and good manners to smooth any problems , this video is an example of how their teamwork is an inspiration to all..I’m now retired but I will always have a great fondness for the Dutch , wonderful liberal but also intelligent people 👏👏👏👏…

The one thing to note here is how most European drivers are trained to recognize, and recognize early, an oncoming emergency vehicle and don't need the blues & twos on their back bumper before they realize "Gee, Mabel, an ambulance; I should do something." In the Netherlands there's usually a set of motorcycle outriders ahead of the escort car to "preset" things if they don't look 100% right. Great job by all concerned.

This is waaaay better than the motorcycle cops having to open up traffic in Paris. Rotterdam can be super proud of their police force !

Great Team effort

Props to the police getting the corridor set up so quickly. I would imagine most police departments would have simply provided an escort to block off intersections as the ambulances moves along rather than reassigning that many police officers to set up a corridor. I also would have thought that a helicopter would have faster but maybe they needed more room for equipment or medical personnel.

You see this every now and then. I used to live by a road that connects the motorway to that hospital complex. All the sudden cop cars, motorcycles and officers appear at major intersections blocking traffic. Because most people are familiar they just wait patiently because we are familiar, baby, emergency sometimes organ on the move. I still get a sense of wow, that’s how you do it

Amazing job, checked the average time this route would take and then we would talk about a small 20 minutes needed to drive this instead of 7/8 minutes

Im deeply impressed!

One thing to note here is that Dutch - and probably most other European - drivers would react to a police car (or ambulance or fire engine) with sirens and flashing lights behind them by getting out of the way, NOT by stopping. If the police want you to stop, they get in front of you and show a red-lettered flashing sign alternating between either “STOP” and “POLITIE” or “VOLG” (follow) and “POLITIE”. In the latter case they lead you to a quiet spot where you can stop safely without obstructing traffic and then stop in front of you. So in the US, with a police car with sirens etc behind them a Dutch driver will get completely confused and try to get on to the sidewalk to get out of the way rather than stopping.

GREAT JOB

Perfect 👍👍

Dutch emergency transport is so very effective. This one is exceptional though. If you compare this to Paris’ cowboy style escorting, this so focused. Hope it served its purpose for the little patient.

The Dutch are the best in the world at this.. There teamwork is amazing

I once was in Rotterdam and cops told me to keep going and FAST. While running red lights and speeding I got flashed several times but, never got a ticket. And no they did not clear the road for me but for something behind me. Later I got off that road and waited to see why the road was cleared only to see a diplomatic car racing by.

Honestly this made me tear up a bit. Just think of what this means- it means the gvt directs enough ressources to police and ambulance crews to prioritise police escorts and safe passage for ambulances, citizens seeing the importance of this too and moving out of the way to make space because what can be more important than saving a life. I love seeing videos like this so much. Greetings from Germany, great job from everyone involved!

this is awesomee

Keep up the great work you need more subs

Well done 👍

This means pretty much the whole force was busy with this. The road is so straight and south-side is the river and north side many streets leading away from this east-west road. And the speeds are driven. In no way police at first intersections could make it to the last few intersections in time. But it takes nearly a minute to drive around the hospital. At 6:00 the buildings on the right, are part of the Erasmus/Sophia complex. Part where a family member once stayed at the heart-department.

Rigorous like the Germans precision like the Swiss and fast as Monaco formula 1. The Dutch never cease to amaze the world! 😎

The Dutch can be very proud of their emergency services.

The one thing that wasn't mentioned was the police motorcycle far ahead of the police car to give warning of in bound. It's a bit like the Special Escort Group in the UK but it works only with motorcycles and uses whistles not sirens.

I remember an urgent ride to hospital by ambulance when looking out the back window I see we're on the wrong side of a double line cure. Not sure what made me more nervous, seeing that or listening to the crew calling ahead about how critical I was.

perfectie van de bovenste plank. TOP!!!!

nice, but i see at the highway onto the A16 this is an old video, their is now construction going on for almost 4 years

If I ever visit the Netherlands and get into a serious accident I already know I would be taken care of incredibly well!

The emergency vehicle driver plays their part too, smooth steady progress holding back enough to allow drivers ahead to sort themselves out. No pressure to panic them. Sometimes by going that little bit slower you get there quicker and, without the need to stop, the patient gets a smoother and more comfortable ride. It also helps if drivers look in their mirrors from time to time! All in all, this video is an example of how it should be done.

Nice how the Police Managed this

Definitely nice work. Here they would have just called in a chopper to transport to another facility, but maybe that wasn't an option there.

Wow amazing, how efficient and coordinated to escort an ambulance. it's almost like blocking the road for a prime minister / president

Cool video, the intense music is a bit much i think though

If only it was like this in every country...

I once read that the officers in Rotterdam see it as an honorary job to make way for ambulances, especially when it's for a child. The call comes in and all start running.

Hi like wise in Ireland but Northern Ireland UK all police services provide similar escort's as I instruct new ambulance drivers at our station and yes I have been on fast ambulance calls. We here enjoy your videos :)