Ambulance

Ambulance is a vehicle for transportation of ill or wounded person to, from or among places of treatment for a sickness or injury and in some examples will also provide out of hospital medical care to the patient. The word is often associated with road going emergency ambulances which form part of an emergency medical service, administering emergency care to those with critical medical problems.

The term ambulance does, however, extend to a wider variety of vehicles other than those with flasher warning lights and sirens. The term also includes a large number of  ambulances which are for transport of patients without an urgent critical condition (see below  Useful types) and a extensive range of urgent and  vehicles including trucks, vans,  motorbikes, station wagons, buses,  Vehicle types).