Hungarian Ambulance Driver Goes All NASCAR in Traffic, but Somehow Stays Smooth

Well, some people manage to turn this sort of dream into reality, and those are the ones you'd like to see behind the wheel when you're riding in the back.

Case in point, the ambulance driver in the video below. Doing his thing in Budapest, Hungary's capital city, the man demonstrates a memorably fluent driving style. In fact, the driver is said to have covered over five miles in under six minutes. Now, the kind of average speed this requires is not the sort of feat a busy European capital normally allows.

Then there's the vehicle he's operating. In Europe, ambulances are split into two main categories. We have the light ones, such as the VW Transporter, and the heftier machines like the VW Crafter.

I chose Volkswagen's line-up as an example since the vehicle seen in this video is a Crafter. So no, a commercial vehicle designed with uber-serious payload in mind isn't exactly the handiest ride you can get.

Watching the clip reminds me of a morning commute ambulance episode that left me in a bit of a shock. To put things shortly, an ambulance driver was supposed to cross an overly busy intersection, with the man choosing to do so by using the available tunnel path.

Call me an oddball driver, but it became obvious to me that going through the underground passage, where civilian drivers would have a more difficult time making room for the ambulance, would cost the driver some extra time.

To complete my impromptu experiment, I chose to stay outside the tunnel and, in theory, cross the intersection wrongfully. As I got to the other side, the ambulance was barely making its way out of the underground passage.

Sure, the level of education displayed by the other drivers also made things worse, but I was expecting the man in the ambulance to be aware of that. Who knows, perhaps he also learned a lesson that morning.

Once again, we tip our caps to the man handling the ambulance in the piece of footage below.